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Border-land in 
Symbols 



By FRANK WAGNER, 
Vancouver, Wash, 



Printed by The Vancouver Columbian. 






Copyrighted by 

FRANK WAGNER 

1913. 



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I 



CHAPTER I. 



A New Country. 

The thought of moving to a new country is 
present in the mind of most every person, 
Whole nations have in mind this thought. From 
childhood, some of the oppressed people in dif- 
ferent parts of the world, have this thought 
constantly in view. 

It is said the proper study of man is man. A 
more correct way to express it would be to say 
that the constant thought of man is to change 
location. One never tires in listening to a per- 
son who has traveled much over the world. 
Astrology and palmistry treats moving as a 
disease. They give the moon the blame for 
this ever restless desire of moving from place 
to place. If that he true, the moon has a strong 
grasp on the people of all nations. We find on 
the prairies conditions not at all like the con- 
ditions in mountainous places. On the prairie 
one can see for miles in every direction — see 
his neighbors at work in the fields, see the 
smoke curling from the chimney in the morning 
when the fire is lighted. One can know when 
anyone starts the morning meal by watching 
the smoke on the morning, gain a fair knowl- 
edge of the thrift of the people of the valley 
in that way. In the mountain regions the con- 
ditions are not similar to those in the valleys. 



4 UORDKR-LAXD IX SYMBOLS 

People as a rule, frame a conception of a new 
place from what they know of the place of 
their abode with the exception, possibly that in 
the new place, the ideal place, all undesirable 
things are eliminated. 

I knew a farmer who moved from Ohio to 
Missouri and took with him his farm imple- 
ments. He had a great supply of plows, culti- 
vators, and other farm implements. They were 
worthless in the new location, as the soil where 
he moved to is of light loam and only plows 
made of cast-steel and hardened very hard, can 
be used. He had to throw away all his imple- 
ments and get new ones. 

At Chadron, Nebraska, I saw an immigrant 
unloading a car load of household goods, and 
among the goods were several pots of cactus. 
One of the boys in the family had placed all 
the pots of cactus to one side cut of danger. 

AYhen his mother came to assist in unloading 
the car, the son remarked to her : ' ' Mother, 
look across the prairie and see, as far as one 
can see, better specimens of cactus than you 
have brought from New York state.' ' There 
Was not a square rod in all that region that did 
not have as good, if not better, specimens of 
cactus than the ones the immigrant brought, 

A family moved from the middle west to the 
Pacific coast in the winter, without having first 
learned of the weather conditions there. "When 
they arrived, the rain was pouring in torrents 
and kept it up for a week without intermission. 
This was too much for the man. He at once 



A NEW COUNTRY 5 

returned to his former home. The rain stopped 
the next day after he had started home. All 
the writing of friends as to the weather was 
time wasted lie had been there and saw for 
himself just what the climate was. 

A lady who lived near the state line between 
Virginia and West Virginia, who, by straight- 
ening the line, was brought into West Virginia, 
said she was delighted with the change as she 
always wanted to be in West Virginia. I pre- 
sume there was something in the climate Of 
West Virginia that appealed to her strongly. 

Suppose there should be an edict which 
would declare that after a certain fixed date 
we were all to be transported to a new country. 
What would be our minds concerning the mat- 
ter of going? 

The map of the world is changing. Nations 
are gaining territory; others losing all their 
territory. The map of the ancient countries 
reveal to use, that hearts have been bade to 
bleed over the loss of all they held dear in 
home, country, lands and customs. 

In the thirteenth chapter of Numbers, is an 
account of the search made in the land of 
Canaan. No one reading this account would 
take it as literal, as meaning only a political 
division of the country. 

There is a meaning in the cabalistic language 
signifying something more beautiful than the 
political division of Palestine. 

"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: 
Send thou men, that thev may search the land 



6 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

of Canaan, which I have given unto the chil- 
dren of Israel, of every tribe of their fathers 
shall ye send a man, everyone a ruler among 
them. 

"And Moses by the commandment of the 
Lord, sent them from the wilderness of Paran 
— all these men were heads of the children of 
Israel. 

' ' And Moses sent them to spy out the land of 
Canaan, and said unto them, get you up this 
way southward, and go up into the mountain. 

"And see the land, what it is and the people 
that dwell therein — whether they be strong or 
weak — few or many. 

"And what the land is where they dwell — 
whether it be good or bad, and wiiat cities they 
be that they dwell in — whether in tents or in 
strong-holds. 

"And what the land is — whether it be fat or 
lean; whether there be wood there, or not. 
And be ye of good courage, and bring of the 
fruit of the land * * * . 

"And they returned after searching the land 
forty days. 

"And they went and came to Moses, and to 
Aaron, and to all the congregation of the chil- 
dren of Israel, and shewed them the fruit of the 
land. 

"And they told him and said : We came un- 
to the land whether thou sentest us, and surely 
it floweth with milk and honey. 

"Nevertheless the people be strong that 
dwell in that place and the cities are walled, 



A NEW COUNTRY 7 

and very great ; and moreover we saw the chil- 
dren of Anak there. 

"And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, 
and said : 'Let us go up and possess that land, 
for we are well able to overcome it. ' 

"But the men that went up with him said: 
' AYe be not able to go up against the people, for 
they are stronger than w r e. 

"And they brought up an evil report of the 
land which they had searched unto the chil- 
dren of Israel, saying: 'The land through 
which we have gone to search it, is a land that 
eateth up the inhabitants thereof, and all the 
people that we saw in it are men of great 
stature. 

"And there we saw the giants, the sons of 
Anak, which came of the giants — and we were 
in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we 
were in their sight/' 

Joshua and Caleb tell the people in the next 
chapter of Numbers, that it is not as bad as it 
is represented — that the danger is magnified, 
and that they need not fear the people who 
dwell there. 

"But all the congregation bade them stone 
them w r ith stones. And the glory of the Lord 
appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation 
before all the children of Israel. * # _ * . 

"Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, 
concerning which I swear to make you dwell 
therein — save Caleb the son of Jehunneh and 
Joshua, the son of Nun. But your little ones, 
which ye said would be a prey, them will T 



8 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

bring in, and they shall know the land which ye 
have despised. But as for you, your carcasses, 
they shall fall in the wilderness. And your 
children shall wander in the wilderness forxy 
years after the number of the days in which ye 
searched the land — even forty days, each day 
for a year, even forty years ; and ye shall know 
my breach of promise. " 

The Jewish people were forbidden to ha\e 
any images. They dare not worship any form 
or object created on the earth or in the 
heavens. To clothe their language in cabal- 
sitic words, they created the occult narrative as 
herein protrayed. The good people of the age 
referred to in this narrative and the people to- 
day believe with one accord that the occult 
land is peopled with giants. I do not mean 
that the giants are seen in the material sens--. 
They are seen, however, and appear as real as 
persons living — seen in the astral plane. In 
talking with people who dwell near the spirit- 
ual world, preachers of the orthodox churches, 
I find many have seen these giants, appearing 
a mile in height and universally in the same 
location. 

I have met men well advanced in the minis- 
try, preachers who would resent the imputa- 
tion that they might be spiritualist, and with 
these preachers I have freely conversed as to 
these giants. 

One good Baptist preacher — honest, earnest 
and true to the line of the Baptist doctrines — 
told me that lie was well acequainted with this 



A NEW COUNTRY 9 

form of the giant in the heavens, and he 
thought it was a demon awaiting the coming of 
the disobedient children who had forsaken 
God's word and gone wrong. As to descrip- 
tion, I asked him how he found the giant com- 
pared with the account in Numbers. He said 
it tallied accurately, and the giant was seem- 
ingly a mile high; that the facial expression 
was not that of anger but to the contrary, quite 
pleasant in expression. There might be num- 
bered a thousand people whom you could ask 
of this giant and from each get the same de- 
tailed description. Can you turn aside all this 
array of evidence 1 

There is not a rational being in the world 
who doubts the existence of the unseen — the 
occult world. And yet when it comes to de- 
fining what they really believe in detail, there 
is a wide difference in their beliefs. Specula- 
tion, deductions, fancies, theories are no better 
than the idle play of the fancy when it comes to 
a working basis in attaining this "Better 
Land." 

Solomon's Temple is as clearly described in 
the Bible as is the land of Canaan. Canaan 
flowed with milk and honey, so it was stated. 
When the children of Israel crossed the river 
Jordan, they did not find a great quantity of 
honey, and milk was as scarce as honey. There 
is a wild bee that makes a hole in the hill and 
deposits some little honey there or may find 
a place in the rocks where they make a home 
and deposit some honey. 



10 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

On the Lewis river, in the State of Washing- 
ton, some bee hunters found one tree from 
which they took twenty-five gallons of the 
most perfect honey. There were many trees 
in the mountains that contained as much honey 
as did the one they cut. The valley of the 
Lewis river has never been reputed as being a 
land flowing with milk and honey. There is 
honey in the Lewis river valley; but one must 
hunt for it or they will not find it. Mark the 
bees with lint and follow them to their home, 
and the honey can be located easily. 

A rancher living in the mountains of the 
same valley and some distance from a wagon 
road, carried his cream to market by fastening 
two ten-gallon cans of cream to a pack saddle 
on a pony. One pony thus carrying cream, got 
away from his owner, ran down the mountain, 
and when the lid fell from the cans the cream 
was splashed high up on the trees and along 
the trail. The valley does not flow with milk, 
however, there is a plenty of milk and cream 
in the valley and I presume many times more 
milk than is, or ever was, in Palestine. 

With all the beauties of Solomon's Temple, 
there is no well posted Mason who believes that 
the Temple ever was anything more than a 
symbol referring to some spiritual truth. No 
one knows Avhere it stood; no archeologist can 
point to the location; not a fragment of the 
structure is known to exist — all its beauty is 
in its symbols. 



A NEW COUNTRY 11 

Strange events occur as the world rolls on. 
For years the search for the "Better "World" 
was made by the churches. I believe any can- 
did mind will see today, that the churches 
have all settled down to the fact that the world 
of spiritual attainment, where there is a con- 
sciousness of the spirit is attained only after 
death. They will tell us that there are two 
bodies, one spiritual, the other material; that 
the spiritual is the real, the material the 
shadow. W 7 hen one asks for a more detailed 
account of the belief, they clear all by saying 
the spiritual consciousness is attained only af- 
ter death. Of the two hundred and fifty de- 
nominations of orthodox churches in America, 
there is not one that I know whose teachings 
are contrary to the above statement. 

Eminent physicians have discovered facts 
that lead them to believe that there are facul- 
ties in the mind which, when developed, reach 
into the unseen — the occult — and grasp the 
forces that are of those planes. 

Many of the most learned men are delving 
into the problems of life, and approach the 
border land, and while they are not all agreed 
on the methods to be used, they are bringing to 
light facts which prove beyond a doubt the 
reality of that which to material sight, unseen. 
They are arranging a working basis along lines 
spiritual, lines that must be followed in this 
new field of research, and that the proofs are 
such as to the data secured, it would stand in 
anv court in the land. One can demonstrate 



12 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

the fact that the churches are fighting this 
movement with great efforts, and discourage 
their members from following the well known 
laws that bring about the consciousness of the 
occult faculties and knowledge of the phenom- 
ena of the occult. 

The universe supplies man with all the ma- 
terial from which to erect temples of Divinity. 
The arrangement of the Temple of Solomon, 
the symbolic ornaments which formed its chief 
decorations, the dress of the Priest, all had ref- 
erence to the order of the universe. The Tem- 
ple had reference to the sun, moon, the fixed 
planets, the seasons, the zodiac, elements and 
many details of the earth's hidden mysteries. 

Paul says: "Know ye not that ye are the 
temple of God, and that the spirit of God 
dwelleth within you?' 7 

J. Hamilton Dewey, a physician of New 
York, some years ago, published a work of 
great usefulness along the lines of occultism. 
In it he showed clearly that the cultivation of 
the hidden forces strengthened the mind, in- 
creased the faculties up to their best and en- 
abled the student to reach into the unseen 
world at pleasure, and take cognizance of the 
things at work there; interpret phenomena, 
and see in Nature much that was hidden from 
the material sight. (The publication is out of 
print.) 

The churches discourage, in every was pos- 
sible, the research into occult forces. They 
contend that the research along these lines is 



A NEW COUNTRY 13 

dangerous, unbalances the mind and unfits one 
for the active duties of life. 

Take the published sermons by the best 
preachers, and you will find that they declare 
in positive terms that there is dual personality ; 
two distinct persons, one of which is spirit and 
one material. They declare that the spirit 
takes charge of the material, conducts the 
path of destiny, leads it along pleasant paths, 
and cares for, guards from danger the steps of 
the material form. That the spirit hovers 
near in sleep, and guards the material from 
danger. They tell us this in one breath, and in 
the next repudiate it all by declaring that no 
one knows anything of the spirit more than 
that revealed in the word of God. They hover 
near some musty volume, written by some one 
that knew less than they of the forces of the 
spirit. Preachers do preach on the unseen — 
the occult forces- — and when you listen to their 
reasoning, or rather want of reasoning, they 
return to what someone has said in the matter, 
not what they know positively in the matter — 
first hand. 

A great orator, a preacher of great fame, 
some years ago preached to an audience at the 
Ministerial Association in Portland, Ore. He 
said in the sermon, that angels hover near; 
spirits guard the bed; ministering forms guard 
every step of the individual, and the curtain of 
Heaven may be drawn aside and angels can be 
seen coming and going. The next Sunday he 
preached on another sermon. In it he said 



14 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

there were some people so smart that they 
could converse with the spirits gone before, 
now in the Celestial spheres and call them 
down to earth. These people, he said, should 
be chained and placed for safe keeping behind 
strong bars. 

It is not safe, it is not wise nor expedient to 
make assertions that cannot be proven. I will 
ask you to go to any preacher, priest, or church 
lecturer and question them along these lines, 
and be convinced that what I have said is true. 

What interests us along the line of the occult 
is how to grasp the knowledge of the forces 
that lead to the strengthening of the faculties 
which interpret phenomena and enable one to 
interpret it correctly. When this is accom- 
plished the student is a long way on the road 
to success. The boy that said an education 
was not worth the effort to learn the alphabet, 
never became famous in letters. 

Language in the occult does not consist of 
words only. It includes all Nature in its lan- 
guage, symbols of Nature's creation, whereby 
lessons are taught for the use of man. 

The blind have a language mostly oral. They 
are learning a new language lately, through the 
kindness of teachers. The blind can now talk 
with the mutes by holding the hand of the mute 
and determining by the sign language what is 
said. The mutes are learning a new language 
by studying the lip movement in speaking, and 
in it they are becoming quite proficient. Years 



A NEW COUNTRY 15 

ago this would have been regarded as impos- 
sible. 

I once saw a Crow Indian buying a bill of 
goods amounting to two hundred dollars or 
more. He could not speak a word of English. 
He had with him a Sioux Indian, and to him he 
gave signs. The Sioux Indian spoke in In- 
dian language to the interpreter and he to the 
owner of the store, and in that way the goods 
were purchased. The Crow Indian did not 
utter a word in all the transaction. 

Helen Keller was afflicted by sickness in 
childhood and a great part of the light and joy 
known to others was closed against her. 

She was deaf, blind and mute. By the as- 
sistance of teachers she learned to read Greek, 
Latin, German and French and mastered much 
of the sciences. For a long time after her 
teachers had traced on her hand the letter that 
stood for cat, dog, doll, and other simple words 
she did not comprehend their meaning. One 
day her teacher gave her a drink of water and 
traced on Helen's hand the word w-a-t-e-r. 
Then she understood what was wanted of her. 
Her soul bounded ahead. 

She wanted to know all about the big round 
world, wanted to know what held up the 
w r orld since it was so big and heavy. 

If Helen Keller was so intensely happy in 
her newly acquired language, by which she 
could learn so much of the world, how much 
more happy would a person be that learned the 
key to the oecult world and could see, while 



16 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

in the physical form, the workings of the tCd- 
seen world? 

The world owes W. Hanna Thompson a debt 
of gratitude in bringing to light the process by 
which language is obtained in man. 

In April, 1861, an eminent French physician, 
named Paul Brocha read before the Paris Medi- 
cal Society a paper which treated on this mat- 
ter and won a world-wide fame. Thompson in 
"Brain and Personality/' said: "It is not 
easy at this time to appreciate what a perma- 
nent influence was exerted in the medical 
world by this school of Paris, whose lecture 
rooms were crowded by students from all coun- 
tries." 

"That there is a definite locality in the brain 
which is the sole seat of articulate speech, 
found in a limited area in the lower and pos- 
terior part of the convolution, called the third 
frontal and which is now known as 'Brochas 
Convolution.' This fact, of course, could only 
be demonstrated by injuries to that part of the 
human subject, and Brocha showed that in all 
such cases damage to that locality was demon- 
strable * * * . 

"Two conclusions inevitably follow upon 
these facts — first, that brain matter, as such, 
does not originate speech, for then both hemis- 
pheres would have their speech centers; and 
second, that either of the hemispheres is equally 
good for speech if something begins early 
enough in life to use it for that purpose. That 
something is the most used hand by the human 



A XEW COUNTRY 11 

child, at the lime when it learns everything; for 
self education always begins in our race with 
the stretching forth of the hand, as anyone 
may note in the first action of the infant. The 
hand then, most used, determines which of the 
brain hemispheres should know speech and 
which hemispheres should remain silent or 
wordless, and therefore, thoughtless for life. 

"It was this discovery which put to rest for- 
ever the theories of phrenology, as a science/' 

Speaking further of this discovery, Thom- 
son says ; "In the visual area is a place which, 
if damaged, renders the person unable to recog- 
nize members of his own family, though he sees 
them : and hi the auditory area are places, one 
of which, if hurt causes the person to be no 
longer able to know his most familiar tunes 
when he hears them, while by injury in another 
place in the brain, he loses all power of distin- 
guishing sounds in general, in that he cannot 
tell the bark of a dog from the song of a bird, 
because they are all alike noises to him. And 
here again, these important brain areas in us, 
interpret what sight and sounds mean, and are 
found only in the left hemisphere of the right 
handed person and in the right hemisphere of 
a left-handed person: in other words in the 
hemisphere in which the seats of the faculty of 
speech are located." 

"With the great majority of people, the 
speech centers are located in the left hemis- 
phere of the brain. It is a part of the left su- 
perior temporal convolution which hears 



IS BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

words; it ig a part of the left angular gyrus 
which sees words; and it is the left Brocha's 
convolution which utters words. In all such 
persons the corresponding places in the right 
hemispheres are not speech areas at all. 

"Therefore, again, it is not brain structure, 
nor organization, nor locality, nor brain cells 
or fibres, nor any similar thing which is the 
first cause of word making. That first cause 
is something wholly different, namely, an 
agency, or agent, which visits these brain lo- 
calities, and finding them originally entirely 
unfamiliar with a single word of any kind, pro- 
ceeds by a long and incessant repetition process 
of teaching, to fashion those particles of gray 
matter to do what he proposes, here to receive 
words, therp to utter words. 

"Here we have come upon a most impressive 
fact, namely, that by constant repetition of a 
given stimulus, we can affect a permanent 
anatomical change in our brain stuff, which 
will add a specific and remarkable cerebral 
function to that place, which it never had be» 
fore, and which, therefore, it could not have 
had either originally or spantaneously. This 
material change must be there, though no mi* 
croscope will ever reveal it, or identify the Eng- 
lish reading from the French reading cells, in 
one who can read both languages, but yet 
there must be, or a blood clot or an umbrella 
tip, could not destroy it. 

"We must pause in our discussion, because 
we have come to a great principle which goes 



A NEW COUNTRY 19 

to the foundation of every thing nervous — from 
the nervous system of a polypus to the brain 
of a philosopher. 

''That principle is this: That a stimulus to 
nervous matter by calling forth a reaction in it. 
This change may be exceedingly slight after the 
first stimulus, but each repetition of the stim- 
ulus increases the change, until by constant re- 
petition a permanent alteration in the nervous 
matter stimulated occurs, which produces a 
fixed habit. In other words, the nervous mat- 
ter acquires a special way of working, that is 
of function, by habit. * * * It can be 
fashioned artificially, that is by education, so 
that it may acquire very many new functions 
or capacities which never came by birth nor by 
inheritance, but which can be stamped upon it 
as so many physical alternations in its propla- 
mic substance." 

In this splendid treatise of " brain and per- 
sonality' ' by Thomson, there is food for reflec- 
tion, and if what he declares is possible in the 
human brain in the way of new functions, the 
whole line of occult forces become tangible, 
and clear, all the phenomena is taken from 
the field of the " special providence" class and 
placed in the field of reason, of the possible 
working of the normal brain. 

To what degree the lower animals have a well 
defined language, is only a conjecture. In 
watching a flock of birds in a tree when some- 
thing approaches, which they are afraid of, a 
warning call is made and all the birds take to 



20 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

the wing. When coming suddenly upon a 
mother quail with her little flock, the mother 
bird will give a warning cry when instantly 
every little quail will find a hiding place. When 
the danger is over she will call in another sound 
and her little ones will come to her. Hunters 
knowing this call, imitate it so perfectly that 
the young quail will come to them when the 
hunter can kill many at one shot. 



CHAPTER II. 



Good and Evil, 

"Thou shalt not kill,-" means one thing to 
one person and means nothing to another, un- 
der the same conditions. 

When two nations are doing their utmost to 
establish th-3 mastery, and the armies are en- 
trenching, shelling each other on every side, 
mowing soldiers down to death with the rapid 
fire guns, there is no disturbing influence at 
work in the breast of the soldiers thus engaged. 
As a disturbing element, do we care to think of 
the horrors of war? 

History proves nothing. On a "five-foot ref- 
erence shelf" not over six inches should be giv- 
en to history. We want to know who wrote 
the history before we even will condescend to 
look into the book. It is said that Charles 
Kingsley, having been appointed lecturer on 
history in the University of Oxford, resigned 
the position and the honors on the grounds of 
incompetency to fill the position, with the ap- 
proval of h.s conscience. Afterward, when 
meeting Froude, they compared notes, and they 
agreed that "We can never know whether 
Mary, Queen of Scots, was virtuous or vicious." 

When one takes the risk of turning traitor to 
his mother country, scatters discontent, is 
treasonable • aids and abets the enemies of his 



22 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

country, that person brings down upon himself 
the anger of the nation. Of all the enemies of 
the nation, such a one is regarded as the 
worst. 

If all the medical fraternity now declare as 
to crime being an abnormal condition of the 
mind that can easily be corrected, what of the 
Guillotine, the scaffold, the dungeon, the 
straight-jackets that are used to punish wrong 
doers? If, even a part of this new declaration 
be true, what of the churches that sanction 
punishment of murder by death ? If my brother 
commits a wrong that the statute declared is 
punishable with death, and I deny him the 
benefit of the medical remedies, the operation 
by the surgeon that would correct the wrong; 
have I done the right thing by my brother? 

"Am I my brother's keeper?" If his brain 
needs attention and I send him to the scaffold 
instead, have I done my full duty? 

Professor Elmer Gates, a man of great re- 
search in medical lines made the discovery that 
in the criminals there is a precipitation of dif- 
ferent colored substances, found in the saliva 
of the party commiting the crime. Some years 
ago he conducted some experiments with 
parties who had committed different crimes, 
and was able to demonstrate to a certainty that 
the rule was perfectly established in this 
theory. He collected the saliva from noled 
criminals and universally the parties who had 
committed the same crimes ; each were pos- 
sessed with a precipitate that settled to the 



GOOD AND EVIL 23 

bottom of the saliva collected. That some 
crimes produced a dark brown colored sub- 
stance, some of a lighter shade, owing to the 
magnitude of the crime committed. In people 
of jovial disposition, he collected saliva, and 
in these universally the precipitate was a white 
substance. That when this substance collected 
of the jovial, happy people, was placed on the 
tongue of others, that it created a like jovial 
disposition in them. 

In the New York Herald, of some years ago, 
Doctor Gates gives in an article the reason 
for his theories. "Dogs born in darkness and 
kept in dark places for a year, without seeing 
a ray of light, have no more brain cells in the 
seeing area of the breain than puppies just 
born. But dogs that have been given a special 
training, in accordance with the rules of the art 
of brain building, in the seeing of colors, tints, 
shades and hues have a greater number of brain 
cells than any dog of the same species has ever 
had before. 

"I discovetred long ago that whenever I put 
into any part of the brain new brain cells, the 
corresponding part of the body was thereby 
rendered stronger and more healthful. It may 
be tridy said that the body is but a portion of 
the brain extended; for, as a matter of fact, 
brain cells, by means of intervening fibres, are 
in a direct contact with the protoplasm of the 
cells of the body. If you will limit your atten- 
tion to some part of the body, as, for instance, 
to your hand, and refuse to allow any state of 



24 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

consciousness to enter your mind except the 
feelings which may arise in that hand, 
you will soon become aware of a warmth 
and fullness in that organ, and which 
by practicing this upon different parts of 
the body several hours a day for five or six 
weeks, you will acquire skill in directing in- 
tense feeling very quickly in any part of the 
body you may select. This may be applied to 
the successful cures of several diseases." 

By this law there is established a well de- 
fined law by the use of which people can lift 
themselves out of and above the sordid planes 
that have a depressing influence. 

It appears that the churches have stood to 
one side and camped along the old trails that 
lead out in the woods and back again by a new 
path. 

A short time ago the newspapers gave an ac- 
count of a boy who developed a mania for mur- 
der. He was attending school — did not get his 
lessons and was going to the bad rapidly. A 
physician noticed the boy's actions and con- 
fided to the boy's father what he thought must 
be the matter — that some part of the skull was 
pressing on the brain and causing this mania. 
The boy underwent an operation, and it was 
found that a pressure on the brain was causing 
the trouble. The trouble was corrected and the 
boy regained his normal mental faculties and 
his place in the class was kept with ease; he no 
more desired to injure his playmates. Chil- 
dren who are afflicted with adenoids, lose their 



GOOD AXD EVIL 25 

places in the classes at school, fall away in in- 
telligence, and while they may live to old age, 
they are handicapped greatly in all the walks 
of life, when a slight operation that would take 
but a few moments might restore them to use- 
fulness. 

Instead of searching for the disturbing ele- 
ments that cause crime, we lay awake at night 
wondering what new form of torture we can 
devise that will cause the wrongdoer to cease 
his wrong doing. 

The people of the State of South Carolina 
had it adopted in her constitution that no di- 
vorces shall be granted under any cause what- 
ever. That rule would meet with the approval 
of the most anti-divorce person, sect or denom- 
ination. 

There is another force at work in that state 
that modifies this rigid rule. Where parties 
cannot harmonize as husband and wife in that 
state, the one being wronged can go to the 
judge of the court and get an allowance, set 
apart from the estate to be used to keep a 
companion in the home. 

The equity court looks upon a thing done 
that should be done. The South Carolina rigid 
law is annulled by the court. It is possible 
-that the law makers of that state had not reck- 
oned on the law of equity. Had they so guarded 
the constitution of that state and made the law 
so rigid that the court of equity could not have 
intervened, such a law would have been useless 
for no power is delegated to nny set of law- 



26 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

makers that can place a wall against courts of 
equity. 

A few years ago United States Senator Smoot 
from Utah, of whom it was charged had seven 
wives, was called upon to defend his right as a 
United States Senator. The whole world look- 
ed on, anxiously awaiting the result. Smoot 
kept his seat in the United States Senate. The 
South Carolinian keeps his wife decreed by the 
court and the world moves on. 

In the South American Republics, falsely, so 
called in some cases, there was a rule that no 
one excepting a Catholic could marry there. 
Parties sojourning there that could not comply 
with that law, or would not do so where they 
might, they married as under the rules of the 
country from whence they came. This was no 
marriage at all, but a violation of the land; 
punishable with imprisonment, and their chil- 
dren were illegitimate and the property ac- 
cumultated after the marriage was subject to 
confiscation by the church. /Phis went on for 
many years — over a hundred years at least. It 
never disturbed the conscience of any of the 
parties this illegally marring there. 

I think it was in President Hay 's administra- 
tion that there came up some trouble over this 
law from some punishment of some one violat- 
ing this law, and congress asked the South Am- 
erican Republics to amend this law, whereby 
parties might marry under the law by officials 
of the law, and also declaring the children born 



GOOD AND EVIL 27 

to the parties before this marriage as legiti- 
mate. 

In one of the Pacific Coast states, after equal 
suffrage was established, a criminal charge was 
lodged against a party for a crime specified un- 
der the laws of that state. The jurors were 
women. The prosecuting attorney made a 
clear case. This crime was not denied. The 
case was given the jury and the prosecuting 
attorney smiled a knowing smile, which meant 
"he will get all that is coming to him." The 
jury were out but a few moments. They return- 
ed with a verdict of "not guilty as charged.' ' 
One can lead a horse to water, but cannot make 
it drink. That jury had to take the instruc- 
tions from the court, but the law granted them 
the right to find "beyond a reasonable doubt," 
and they were the sole judges as to the evi- 
dence. 

About that time I knew a party that was 
charged with the same crime. He had promised 
to marry a lady and met another lady that he 
liked better, and married her. The first one 
brought a criminal charge against him. He 
was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. 
He was made a trusty at the penitentiary, and 
made himself useful by doing odd jobs. When, 
in eight months, he had earned the credits for 
good behaviour, he returned home ; a company 
of 100 or more met him and welcomed him 
home. They had a jollification on his return. 
His wife was among the crowd who welcomed 
the ex-convict back. Later this man was re- 
warded by his friends by being appointed to & 



28 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

prominent political position of trust. 

The same year in which this occurred, there 
was a logger who became restless after getting 
his pay check and longed to be with the boys 
of the city. He spent his money in short order, 
by the assistance of friendly bar-tenders, and 
late in the night he went in search of a place to 
sleep. He wandered along the bank of the 
river, found a shed and pushed in the door and 
made a bed on some grain sacks. In the morn- 
ing the freight men found an intruder in the 
grain shed and reported it to the sheriff. The 
man was arrested and taken to jail on a charge 
of burglary. The prosecuting attorney told 
the man to plead guilty, that the charges would 
be punished lightly. The man plead guilty and 
was given fifteen years in the penitentiary. 

The man did not impress me as a criminal. I 
secured his parole. I loaned him money to pay 
his carfare and hotel bills until he reached the 
place where he had secured work with his 
friend, who had vouched for the criminal's 
good behaviour. He went to work, was faith- 
ful as he had been in former years. He return- 
the money I advanced him with the remark, 
"Here is your money and some more. Thanks. 
I will not forget you." Later that summer 
there came a forest fire that raged over the 
woods where he was hook-tender in the logging 
camp. Lie was lost track of and has not been 
heard of since. It was thought that he had 
taken passage on a ship bound for Australia, as 
there were ships leaving about that time. That 



GOOD AND EVIL 29 

man. though not a bad man. has a horror of the 
injustice of the law on the Pacific Coast. If 
in years to come, that man becomes an orator, 
he may be found on a soap box telling the peo- 
ple of the injustice of the laws of the land. 

A man in California, was sentenced to one 
year in the penitentiary for horse stealing. He 
went with the sheriff in search of the peniten- 
tiary, as it seemed, and on the way the sheriff 
lost the man. The convict went on to the pen- 
itentiary and gave himself up. As there was 
no commitment papers giving the warden au- 
thority to take charge of the criminal, the 
criminal had to wait the coming of the sheriff. 
That criminal did not cause the warden any 
trouble, he was made a trusty, and became 
general roust-about. His conscience never dis- 
turbed him in the least over the crime he was 
charged with committing. 

It is said that a noted actress was a great 
favorite of one of the kings in Europe. One 
day. while the guest of the king, this lady, in 
a playful mood, dropped a small piece of ice 
down the king's back. It is said that the king 
"never quite forgave her for the insult." 

Strange as it might seem to an American, the 
rule or law of custom about the great and near 
great, the noble of royal degrees, it appears to 
be a crime to approach any of the royal mem- 
bers without their consent and permission. In 
days under the rule of despotism the touch of 
any member of the royal family in a jest, or 
rude manner, was punishable with death. 



30 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

The fair jiaiden musing beneath the scenes, 
forgets the festive rays and masquers gay. 
She sees a mist, a darkness, passing before her 
vision, and beyond these she sees pain and 
death. She inquires of her mother if this is 
all of life — pleasure today, pain and death to- 
morrow ? 

Slowly the people awaken from their long 
sleep, rub their eyes and look about in a dreamy 
manner upon the surrounding conditions that 
hampers the minds of the people. In the his- 
tory of the United States of America, there was 
never a greater disturbing element than the 
African slavery practice. There were two 
equal divisions of the country. South of the 
Mason and Dixon's line was slavery, with all 
its horrors. North of this line the opposition to 
slavery was intense. The " under ground 
road" was a well known fact. Where I lived 
in Indiana the good people living there, would 
take the runaway slaves and in ttie night the 
friends of the negroes would go with them, 
traveling all night taking the slaves to their 
destination to cross over into Canada to be 
free. When the Dread Scott decision came it 
was the last straw that broke the camel's back. 
By this law or Supreme Court decision, any 
slave owner could follow the runaway slave in- 
to any of the northern states and take his slave, 
and compel people to turn out and hunt for the 
slave. 

It is not the purpose here to repeat history. 
All have volumes of American history in your 



GOOD AND EVIL 31 

libraries. Only that we may get a glimpse in- 
to the mind that will enable us to fathom the 
law wherein crime works as a disturbing ele- 
ment to the degree that it turns back the hands 
of time and compels the race to work up against 
great disadvantages and ages of labor are lost 
in vain, 

Lincoln's speech in 1858, reveals much of the 
mind of the people concerning slavery. He 
said in that speech: "If w r e could first know T 
where we are, and whither we are tending, we 
could better judge what to do, and how to do 
it. We are now in the fifth year since a policy 
was initiated with the avow r ed object, and con- 
fident promise of putting down slavery agita- 
tion. Under the operation of that policy, that 
agitation not only has not ceased but has con- 
stantly augmented. In my opinion, it w r ill not 
cease until a crisis has been reached and passed 
# * * . Either the opponents of slavery 
will arrest the further spread of it, and place it 
where the public mind shall rest in the belief 
that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or 
its advocates will push it forward till it shall 
become alike lawful in all states, old as w r ell 
as new, north as w^ell as south. Let anyone who 
doubts carefully contemplate that new, almost 
complete, legal combination piece of machinery, 
so to speak — compounded of the Nebraska 
doctrine ana the Dread Scott decision # * * , 
We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the 
people of Missouri are on the verge of making 
their state free, and we shall awake to the real- 



32 BORDERLAND IX SYMBOLS 

ity. instead, that the Supreme Court had made 
Illinois a slave state. To meet and to over- 
throw that dynasty is the work before all those 
who would prevent that eonsumation. That is 
what we have to do. How can we do it? 

"When he invites any people, willing to have 
slavery, to abolish it, he is blowing out the 
moral lights around us. When he (Douglas) 
says that he cares not whether slavery is voted 
down or up — that it is a sacred right of self- 
government — he is, in my mind, penetrating the 
human soul and eradicating the light of reason 
and love of liberty in this American people." 

As a disturbing element, nothing in the his- 
tory of the American continent has been as pro- 
lific of evil as the unrest, the constant turmoil 
over slavery. As long as time lasts the conflict 
will go on. fading at times, brightening up at 
others, but forever working an unrest in the 
minds of the people. One year the laws make 
it a crime to inter-marry the whites with the 
colored race, the next year it is permissible ; 
and state after state is confronted with this 
monster that will never down. 

In Lincoln's inaugeral address in 1861, he de- 
clares that he had no intention of disturbing 
slavery 'of the south. He said in that speech: 
''Apprehension seems to exist among the people 
of the southern states, that by the accession of 
the Eepublican administration their property 
and their peace and personal security are to 
be endangered. There never was any reason- 
te for such apprehension. Indeed, the 



D AND EVIL 06 

most ample evidence to the contrary has all the 
while existed and been open to their inspection. 
* * * I have no intention, directly or indi- 
rectly, to interfere with the institution of slav- 
ery in the states where it exists. I believe I 
have no lawful right to do so. ' 5 

"When slavery was in its infancy, William 
Pinkney, in a speech delivered in 1788, said t 
"The generous mind, that has adequate ideas 
of the inherent rights of mankind and knows 
the value of them, must feel its indignation rise 
against the shameful traffic that introduces 
slavery into a country which seemed to have 
been designed by providence as an asylum for 
those whom the arm of power has persecuted 
and not as a nursery for wretches stripped of 
every privilege which Heaven intended for its 
rational creatures, and reduced to a level with 
■ — nay, become themselves— the mere goods and 
chattels of their masters. Sir, by the eternal 
principles of natural justice, no master in the 
states has a right to hold his slave in bondage 
for a single hour; but the law of the land, 
which we cannot in prudence or from a regard 
to individual rights abolish, has authorized a 
slavery as bad or w r orse than the most absolute, 
unconditional servitude that ever England 
knew in the early ages of its empire, under the 
tyranical policy of the Danes, the feudal ten- 
ures of the Saxons or the pure villanage of the 
Normans/' 

When Thoreau was imprisoned because he re- 
fused to pay some unjust, iniquitous tax, Emer- 



34 UCRDEll-LAKD IN SYMBOLS 

son visited him in the prison and asked Thoreau 
why he was there. Thoreau said: "It is not 
so much why I am here, but why are you not 
here, Emerson ?" 

A microbe in a drop of water became enraged 
at some fancied injury on the part of some oth- 
er microbe, and in his fury killed many com- 
panions. After he had vented his fury he 
apologized to the drop of water for his rude- 
ness. The drop of water said : "I had not 
noticed that you were doing anything, were 
you acting badly ?" A whale became enraged 
in the ocean and upset boats killed many people 
and lashed the sea into a foam. After it had 
cooled down a little and saw the folly of the 
act, the whale asked the sea for its forgiveness* 
The seas asked : "Have you been acting badly.' ' 

"Yes," said the wdiale, "did you not notice 
me killing people and lashing the sea to a 
foam?" "No," replied the sea, "I did not no- 
tice your acting badly." 

A tornado tore across the country and de- 
vastated many villages and cities, killing and 
injuring many people. After it has become 
calm and reason restored, it asked the sun for 
forgiveness. The sun replied that everything 
seemed to be working about as usual, that 
there was no noticeable disturbance. 

An item was published in the newspapers of 
a punishment inflicted on a Prussian soldier, 
that seems out of all proportion. The reserv- 
ists had been called in for fourteen days prac- 
tice, and during this period aviators gave an 



,) AND EVIL 35 

exhibition. The crowd insisted on breaking 

through the barriers surrounding the aviation 
field and an under officer ordered a dragoon 
to ride his horse into the crowd. Gustav 
Pieper, a reservist, who happened to be in the 
crowd, seeing women and children threatened 
by the charging horse, seized the bridle and 
held the animal. He was sentenced to seven 
months imprisonment. I presume, had the 
horseman allowed the horse to trample upon a 
child and crush out its life, he would have been 
cautioned to be careful. 

A friend of mine, who served one term in 
the navy, related his experience in the line of 
discipline. They were ordered to paint the boat. 
All hands went to work and the boat was paint- 
ed a beautiful white in the interior. After a 
week's work and the ship was painted inside 
and out, there came an order to coal up. The 
paint was fresh. The fact made no difference. 
The coal went thundering into the ship from a 
dozen places. The coal dust covered the en- 
tire ship, and the fresh paint was a sight to 
behold. When the coaling was completed, the 
orders came to scrape off the paint. The only 
good that could have come of these crazy or- 
ders was to crush the manhood of the soldiers 
and make them mere sticks in the hands of the 
officers. 

When the soldiers were guarding the rail- 
roads in California, some years ago, a striker 
asked a soldier friend if he would shoot down 



S6 BORDER-LAND IK SYMBOLS 

his friends. The soldier replied, "Ask the 
captain." 

A few years ago the country was a witness to 
one of the most flagrant wrongs that could be 
perpetrated on the public in the Aalskan gold 
craze. It seemed to have been originated by an 
emmigration society for the purpose of 
pure greed and gain. 

Newspaper plants were purchased, space was 
paid for by the year in the leading daily papers, 
train loads of literature was printed and scat- 
tered broad-cast all over the United States, 
Glaring reports of gold discoveries were pub- 
lished in every paper in the land. Parties re- 
turning from the gold field — destitute and hav- 
ing spent all they had taken, and borrowed 
more ; parties returning home to stay, were in- 
terviewed and made to say that they had re- 
turned on business; that they had left their 
mines in the care of an agent. 

When the advertisements of the rich gold 
field had done its deadly Avork, the stream of 
gold seekers started north. They came in 
swarms, in companies, every mode of convey- 
ance that could be pressed into use to carry the 
emigrants to the gateways of the Pacific Coast, 
were pressed into use. Every form of floating 
craft that could be used, either sail boat, gaso- 
line, steamboats were packed with freight and 
passengers going to the land of gold. Young 
and old, strong and decrepit, old women lean- 
ing on canes, old men using crutches, rich, poor 
and all nationalities were represented in the 



GOOD AND EVIL 37 

people making the venture. From the day the 
parties sold their home, or mortgaged it to se- 
cure money to make the trip to the day they 
landed, it was one round of grab, greed, graft 
and every turn in the road was met with adver- 
sity from start to dismal finish. 

When Alaska was readied the labor began 
to get the supplies to the gold fields. At the 
coast landings the parties having goods or sup- 
plies, had to carry the same to the summit, a 
distance of many miles. This was up a canyon 
to reach the top of the divide. Goods were 
carried for a distance of a mile or two miles or 
more as much as the owner or packers could 
carry. The goods were placed in a pile and 
the other goods carried to this deposit until all 
was carried to the first deposit, and then a new 
place was selected and the goods carried to that 
place, and so on until the top of the table land 
"was reached. 

AVhen the summit was reached, and the lake 
leached, there was more trouble. Lumber had 
to be sawed with a whip saw out of the stand- 
ing green timber at the lake's edge, and boats 
or scows were made to transport the goods 
across the chain of lakes. This took more time 
and cost of labor. When the boats were made 
and filled, trouble arose by the wind and waves 
on the lake, damaging the goods in the boats 
from leakage of the boats. The gold fields 
were reached after many week's hardship of 
the fortunate ones. Many fell by the wayside, 
met death in snow slides or the narrow 



::N BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

passes. Others drowned b} r boats upsetting on 
the lakes. When camp was reached houses had 
to be made of canvas, clay, sticks and logs as 
best they could of the material at hand. 

The camps were thinned with disease, ty- 
phoid fever, malarial fevers, scurvy and many 
other forms of disease made inroads on the 
camps. Some gold was found, but not one 
dollar was taken away for every ten dollars 
spent by the gold seekers. It was one chain of 
adversity after another all along the line. 

No one could have stopped the craze. No- 
one thousand men with a mililon dollars at 
their command could have brushed aside the 
craze, once it was fanned into existence. When 
a person loses his life at the hands of an as- 
sassin the murderer is run to cover and his 
life taken as a forfeiture. When one loses 
goods, the thief is found and placed in the peni- 
tentiary for the crime. Someone must atone 
for the crime. 

In the Alaskan craze, where an army of un- 
known number, lost their lives in that land of 
adversity ; lost all they had made in a lifetime 
by toil ; and in trying to place the blame, one 
would be at a loss to know where to begin. 
When the weary bankrupt miner started home 
to the land of plenty, he possibly was waiting 
for the last boat out from Alaska for the fall. 
The boat was a dilapidated old tub, and it was 
taking the risk or stay in the frigid north. 
The risk was taken and in some instances it 
was the winding sheet of the returning miners. 



GOOD AND EVIL 39 

An Eastern Oregon rabbit drive by the farm- 
ers, where miles of guide wire fence is spread 
to guide the rabbits to the pen of death, where 
boys, men on horseback, and dogs are driv- 
ing the rabbits to their doom, is no surer of re- 
sults than the craze that set Alaska on fire 
some years ago. The transportation companies 
take no blame. The merchants that sold the 
goods at exorbitant prices to the gold seekers 
claim they are not to blame. The steamboat 
companies share no blame in the matter. The 
fact is clear that the gold seekers were duped, 
deceived, misled, met adversity on every hand, 
lost ail they had ; came home sick, destitute and 
had to begin life anew. The symbols of adver- 
sity were on every hand in the entire trip. What 
more could a sane person have planned than 
they gathered? Father Flynn, now ninety- 
seven years of age, hale, hearty, contented 
in living in the valley at the foothills of the 
Cascade mountains in Oregon, where the vio- 
lets, crocus, hyacinths and other early blooming 
plants come in bloom the first of March every 
year, sometimes earlier, has kept his life free 
from these trips that contain only adversity, 
and is happy. 



CHAPTER III 

Spiritual Consciousness. 

The subject of spiritual consciousness is little 
understood. The very few care anything 
about it, rarely discuss or think of it. People 
are afraid of the subject; many of the bravest 
people in the world fear the darkness, fear that 
they will be confronted with a spirit, a ghost, 
1 know a very intelligent Christian lady who 
will not go into a dark room for any price. One 
night, while in a darkened room, she saw a face 
and ever after that she fears the dark. Pos- 
sibly if she could be made to understand from 
whence came the form of the face she would 
fear the dark less than the light. The ma- 
jority of the people believe, are taught in 
church and Sunday School, that the spirit is 
quickened after death, never before; that af- 
ter death we become a spirit. To test this mat- 
ter you have but to ask any child, any teacher, 
any preacher in Christendom and be convinced 
that this statement is not true. It is wrong to 
teach that we will gain a spirit. We are spirit* 
We are spirit and know it not. The introduc- 
tion has been attempted in a thousand ways 
from childhood to old age, yet We cannot, or 
will not understand. The doctrine has been 
advanced that after death we will gain a spirit- 
ual body of perfection, and live on and on for* 



SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS 41 

ever, gain wisdom and strength and go the 
rounds of the planets in the progress in the up- 
per planes. 

We will not disagree over the matter at this 
time. The point of difference is as to time 
only. We are spirit now. We will he spirit 
after death also and then all will be clear. All 
can be made clear now if we will that it be so. 
The one that puts off the knowing for a fact 
that they are spirit, will pass to death and have 
gained little, will be drift wood on the shores 
of eternity, there to regain a consciousness that 
might be gained here in life. 

An enterprising man had many sons. He 
gave them all the advantages that could be 
given in position, schooling and in business. 
The sons had been allowed to select their choice 
in churches : Mike lrad joined the Catholic 
church ; Calvin found a home in the Presbyter- 
ian church; Newton was a Congregationalist; 
Campbell found the Christian church his ideal; 
Eddy became a Scientist; Swedenhorg found a 
home with the Spiritualists; Joseph found the 
latest, the Independents, and with them he cast 
his lot and made his home and abiding faith; 
Daniel found the key to solvation was in the 
prophesies of Daniel, and that the keeper of the 
keys was the Advents. Each was happy in the 
extreme in life belief or want of belief. 

At the parental home there was a reunion of 
the family. They gathered there as they had 
each year after leaving home. They talked of 
the events *of the day, the political prospects, 



42 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

and finally drifted into the theological teach- 
ings that interested each the most. Mike said 
that his church settled all the disputes relative 
to immortal life, that he never worried over the 
issues of the church, that all that worry was 
left with the priest. 

Newton said that as to the essentials and non- 
essentials, we could agree near enough on the 
essentials and let alone the non-essentials. The 
Congregational people are never amenable to 
trials for heresy, by this rule of action. 

Calvin thought that the law of "foreordina- 
tion and predestination' 7 were establshed, and 
that all understood the law and none were ex- 
cused from the law. Campbell found that it 
was easy in the combine of the il preacher, the 
word and the subject," along with plenty of 
water. Eddy said the matters referred to by 
his brothers was not clear and explicit, and that 
his church treated the matter differently. That 
Mrs. Eddy taught that iL those who reach the 
transition, called death, without rightly im- 
proving the lessons of this primary school of 
mortal existence, — and still believe in matter's 
reality, pleasure and pain, — are not ready to 
understand immortality. Hence they awake 
into only another sphere of experience, and 
must pass through another probationary state 
before it can be said of them : ' Blessed are 
the dead that die in the Lord.' (See page 3 
of " Unity of Good," by Mary Baker Eddy.) 
Swedenborg replied that that sounded like re- 
incarnation to him if it had any meaning. 



SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS 43 

Joseph related to his brothers that he had 
learned a new doctrine, one that seemed ration- 
al and by its use a degree of consciousness 
could be attained whereby one might know the 
"will of the Father/' and follow it without 
stumbling. That by the cultivation of the fac- 
ulties that are given man to use, one can prove 
beyond a doubt that man lives now as a spirit, 
that he is spirit. That one need not wait the 
death of the physical body before knowing that 
the spirit was the real part of the being, as 
known in life. 

Daniel came to the reunion quite late. It be- 
ing Sunday he had some work that had to be 
done and as he had rested on the Sabbath, he 
eame late in the day. He brought with him the 
newest revelation on the prophesies of Daniel 
and expounded these to his brethren. 

Joseph remarked that "if the Russian gov- 
ernment wouldn't tie up the war dogs the 
prophesies of Daniel might work a fair revela- 
tion in Europe. 1 " Swedenborg and Joseph were 
busily engaged in the themes nearest their 
hearts, when the other brothers retired for the 
night. 

In "Unity of Good, 9 ' page 28, Mrs. Eddy de- 
plores the idea of there being a spiritual con- 
sciousness. She says: "Who then, dares de- 
fine the soul as something within man? As 
well might you declare some old castle to be 
peopled with demons or angels, though never a 
tight or form was discerned therein, &nd not & 



44 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

spectre had ever been seen going in or coming 
out." 

Suppose you were to take a blind man to a 
castle and tell him the castle was inhabited by 
a pretty lady. Suppose the blind man would 
say he heard no sound of footsteps about the 
castle, therefore, it was not inhabited. Sup- 
pose one were to take a deaf man to the castle 
and tell him the castle was inhabited by a 
pretty maiden. He could see, but saw no form 
there, he therefore, declared there was no one 
in the castle. I lived for nearly a year by a 
neighbor in Nebraska whom I thought had 
abandoned his homestead. I lived but a short 
distance from him, not a quarter of a mile were 
our houses apart. I remarked one day to a 
neighbor that the man seemed to have abandon- 
ed his home. My friend replied that I was mis- 
taken, that the neighbor referred to spent ev- 
ery night in his home. The neighbor whom I 
thought had abandoned his home, was working, 
building a barn some miles away, and came 
home late every night. 

When Joshua lead the children of Israel 
across the Jordan into the land of Canaan, did 
he find it flowing with milk and honey? Did 
they find the Anakins there. In the thirty- 
fourth chapter of Numbers there is the bound- 
ary of the land that the children of Israel 
should possess. It was not as large as the 
State of Ohio, when in President McKinley's 
administration it was described by a congress- 
man as bounded on the north by the Arctic 



SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS 45 

Ocean, on the east by the Atlantic, on the south 
by the gulf and on the west by contingencies. 

"What became of the land flowing with milk 
and honey that forty years before the twelve 
spies discovered, now the children of Israel 
were crossing the Jordan to possess it? Why 
did Moses charge them to "Drive out all the 
inhabitants of the land from before you, and 
destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their 
molten images and pull down all their 
high places. 

"And ye shall disposess the inhabitants of 
the land, and dwell therein, for I have given 
you the land to possess it. And ye shall divide 
the land b}^ lot for an inheritance." When 
Moses died, Joshua was told to go and possess 
the land, that the Lord had promised the chil- 
dren of Israel. He charged him "only be 
thou strong and of great courage. 

That thou mayest observe to do according to 
the law which my servant Moses commanded 
thee, turn not from it to the right hand or to 
the left hand that thou mayest prosper whither- 
soever thou goest." 

Who knows the history of the tribes that 
crossed over Jordan? Speculation on every 
hand as to the ten lost tribes — where they went, 
what was their final destiny, has been the 
theme of Christendom for ages and it is no 
nearer solved today than it was a thousand 
years ago. 

Was the history of the children of Israel an 
occult story, a cabalistic story, or was it the 



4G BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

transaction of a nation? Take your choice be- 
tween the two. 

When the microscope came into use it opened 
to us a new world, not before known. Life 
was clearer understood. The building of the 
body was revealed by the use of this instrument 
to be conducted like the building of a castle, or 
a wall, the builders being officered by captains 
and the work was divided between companies 
of workmen, all officered by a leader. That one 
set of workers carried away the waste tissues, 
cleared the ground and other workers carried 
the material and repaired the structure. A 
new world is thus revealed. 

When the telescope came into use it opened to 
us a new world as mysterious as a fable. Peo- 
ple with eyesight better than the average of 
the people declared there was a bright star near 
the middle star on the handle of the " dipper/ f 
known in England as the "plough," but why 
they gave it that name no one can conjecture. 
This star is known as "Jack by the middle 
horse." How was it possible, before the tele- 
scope to prove there was a bright star at that 
location, only a few feet below the middle star 
as referred to? Those who could see it with 
the naked eye, might declare its location and 
fact, but to all with poor sight this assertion 
carried little weight. When the telescope and 
the field glass came into use all could prove 
the fact in this way. If you want to test your 
sight go some clear night and look closely for a 
few moments below the middle star on the dip- 



SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS 47 

per handle and you will see it, a bright red star 
a few inches, as it seems, below and a little to 
the left downwards or near a right angle with 
the range of the three stars forming the handle 
of the dipper. If you cannot see it with the 
eyesight, then take a field glass and you will 
find it and be convinced. 

This does not prove spiritual consciousness. 
No, possibly not. However, we have set at rest 
the fact that there existed this star that was 
beyond the range of the sight of many. 

Suppose one were to say that there might be 
a large company of trustworthy people who 
would declare that the body did possess a be- 
ing, a mate, an inmate within the castle, and 
that to follow certain well defined rules the 
fact could be demonstrated, would their testi- 
mony be taken! Would you say with the 
thousands, before the telescope and field glass 
were invented, that the "Jack by the middle 
horse" was only a myth, until the fact was 
proven; that the castle is not inhabited? If 
Mrs. Eddy has not seen the inmate does that 
prove that there is no inhabitant of the castle ! 

Mere assertions, as such, signify nothing. 
People claim they want proof. The fact is that 
the masses of the people take for granted near- 
ly everything with which they have to deal — 
take other people's word for it. Possibly the 
spiritual features of life are an exception to this 
rule. They said of Jesus : "Let him come down 
from the cross if he be the Savior." They 
smote him and said, "tell us who smote you." 



4S BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

The Christian, as well as the agnostic, or in- 
fidel, when it comes to the occult feature of life 
demand a "sign." One lies down to sleep and 
leaves the working of the body to the invol- 
untary action of the body, the respiration, the 
digestion, the heart's action and all is well. 
No one knows why or how the heart beats, or 
how digestion is accomplished, yet no one 
worries over that fact. Someone is caring for 
the body while it is at rest. 

It is not the purpose of this article to ask 
any one to blindly believe any spiritual state- 
ment unsupported by proofs. 

Do you desire to know, for a certainty, that 
the body is inhabited ? If so, then we can soon 
agree on the facts ; have the proof and you will 
be grateful for the proof. If it does not in- 
terest you, then our time is not well spent in the 
discussion. Do you care to become conscious 
of the spiritual consciousness that you might 
serve others and assist the world in being* 
happy, then your desires are well grounded, 
and only success will attend the efforts. If 
idle curosity prompts you in the investigation, 
take warning and leave it alone. You are deal- 
ing with fire and will meet with disappoint- 
ment that will cost you something. You may 
have the proof first hand, need not ask a 
medium or other teacher for any revelations for 
they are yours to take once you know how. 
For idle curiosity, we have come to the parting r 
of the way, from this line forward to the close 
of the book will lead to a disappointment, if 



SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS 49 

you are seeking amusement for idle curiosity 
alone. 

There is a preparatory process in the occult, 
that must be carried forward, and certain well 
established rules must be followed before one 
can attain to the consciousness of the spirit to 
know that there is an inmate that dwells in the 
castle with us. It takes years of prayer, years 
of painstaking effort to master the sun's rays 
and to come into the light. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Counting the Cost. 

Are you satisfied with your attainment lii 
Spiritual consciousness? If so, you are to be 
congratulated. If you long to know more of 
the unseen world, long to know more of the 
Father, then the pursuit of knowledge will lead 
you into pleasant paths. Teachers will come 
out in the open and will lead you. When one 
crosses the threshold and declares that he will 
seek diligenth' for wisdom, then wisdom will 
be attained. Possibly not from the standpoint 
of the church rule, can one hope to attain to the 
desired knowledge, for the churches are all 
hedged about with a wall of doctrines which 
sacredly guard the flock from seeking wisdom 
along any lines but those prescribed in that 
church. No one would for a moment place any 
hindrance in the way of the churches doing a 
missionary work, making life as pleasant as 
possible by placing the fallen on a plane above 
the planes of the sensual and criminal classes. 
We cannot point with pride to any higher at- 
tainments reached by the churches. By a care- 
ful canvass, both in Europe, Africa and Am- 
erica it is declared, by the churches, both Cath- 
olic and Orthodox, that they are losing ground. 
That little interest is taken in the churches of 
today in any part of the world. They are fall- 



COUNTING THE COST Si 

ing off in spiritual attainments, so it is de- 
clared by themselves. They claim they are 
losing hold on the people, that their members 
are indifferent to the rales of the churches in 
all parts of the world. As Israel went away^ 
was lost sight of, possibly, Christendom may 
follow. 

In searching with care the experience of Job 
When he was making the effort of his life to 
gain wisdom from above, and discarding the 
supposed truths of the wise of earth as then 
known who expounded to him what they 
thought was wisdom, one can see that the effort 
cost Job no little. When he "paid the price 9f 
and stood in the light of the sun he had demon- 
strated what it meant to follow, determinedly, 
a rigid pursuit after wisdom. 

In ancient times, when a man wanted to 
wage war on some enemy he would pledge all 
his property, his gold and silver plate ; get 
his army, their equipment and begin his war*. 
If he had not counted the cost with care he 
would be improverished. When the day of re- 
demption came, if he could not pay, he lost all 
he had pledged. In some instances where the 
soldier could not meet the obligation, and no 
extension could be granted on the property 
pledged, the warrior wotild kill the man from 
whom he had borrowed the money and by the 
death of the lender of the money the warrior 
had one year in which to pay the money bor* 
rowed. The lender of money, in those days, 
took chances of losing his life if he played 



62 BORDERLAND IN SYMBOLS 

"Shyloek and the pound of flesh," in a busi- 
ness transaction. 

I know a widow who was left some money by 
insurance of her husband when he died. She 
started a structure of great proportions, which 
was not half completed when her money was 
gone. It stood weather beaten for years when 
it was sold for a small part of the cost to her. 
She lost all in the enterprise, went to cooking 
for a means of earning a livilihood. The money 
left her would have kept her in comfort for 
many years, had it been rightly used. 

All over the land one sees houses weather 
beaten and unfinished, the scaffolding yet up, 
the braces nailed to the sides of the house, and 
the place inhabited in that condition. 

An uncompleted structure never looks well. 
It fills the mind with horror. 

When one begins to build a castle, a temple 
immortal, to make his body a dwelling place 
for the spirit, it is well to look to the cost 
there. When one gets it partly completed, to 
a degree that it is possible to house an inmate, 
it is well to see that it is built of good material. 
Leo Tolstoi withdrew from the world and 
builded well, placed only the best material in 
the temple. People, who were at the home of 
the Count, tell us that Tolstoi and his daughter, 
who assisted him in his literary work, would 
sit at the dining table, partake of their frugal 
meal of brown bread and porridge and milk, 
then quietly retire. The wife would occupy 
the other end of the table surrounded with of- 



COUNTING THE COST 53 

ficers and nobles of rank. Tolstoi will live for 
over in the memory of the people of every na- 
tion, as a grand man. 

According to a recent publication by a 
Russian, on the life of Jesus, he tells us in de- 
tail of the disappearance of Jesus at thirteen 
years of age, and of his studies among the 
Jugernauts, who gave Jesus his education, and 
of his studies and preaching in different parts 
of the world ; that Jesus withdrew from the ac- 
tive callings of the world to prepare himself for 
the work later engaged in after his return to 
Palestine. 

When St. Paul was converted, he seems to 
have gone down into Arabia to the school of 
Metaphysics there, as it was reported where 
Jesus had gone before him. Paul said he did 
not go to Jerusalem but went down into Arabia. 

In the life of Mary Baker Eddy, she says she 
was a recluse for many years. That she was 
away from the active cares in the preparation 
of "Science and Health." Yet, with her prep- 
aration, as others had done in accomplishing 
the same mission, she gained much wisdom ; yet 
seems not to have discovered that the temple 
is inhabited. 

Sarah Thacher, of Applegate, California, was 
a recluse for many months in a deserted lime 
kiln. She was a great student of literature; 
was a teacher of marked ability, yet she chose 
the wiser part. She builded well. Every 
piece of material that went into the Temple 
Beautiful was a perfect piece of material. 



54 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

One might mention many who have done 
likewise. What does it mean? When you be- 
gin an education you start with the alphabet. 
Then the trouble begins. The boy who said an 
education was not worth the effort it took in 
learning the alphabet, never became famous 
as a scholar. Take one of those souls who have 
paid the price and try to barter something you 
possess for what they possess and see what 
they ask for their part of the schooling. 

When a child begins to acquire an education 
he leaves behind all thoughts of playmates who 
idle away their time. It it a serious business 
with him. He knows what others before him 
have accomplished by the same efforts. He 
knows no defeat. The pinch of poverty only 
whets his ambition. It means a new coat, a 
new life, new surroundings when he can mea- 
sure his life with the best of the land. 

After the reign of terror in Israel and the 
corruption of the rulers, Elijah came among 
them and demonstrated to them some phenom- 
ena that convinced many of the people, but 
called down upon his head the wrath of Jeze- 
bel. "And Jezebel sent a messenger unto Eli- 
jah, saying, so let the gods do to me, and more 
also, if I make not thy life as the life of one 
of them by tomorrow about this time. 

"When he saw that he arose and went for 
his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which be_- 
longeth to Judah, and left his servant there. 

"But lie himself went a day's journey (30 
miles) into the wilderness, and came and sat 



COUNTING THE COST 55 

down under a juniper tree : and he requested 
for himself that he might die * * * .'' 

"And he said, go forth and stand on the 
mount before the Lord. And behold, the Lord 
passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the 
mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before 
the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind; 
and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord 
was not in the earthquake ; and after the earth- 
quake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; 
and after the fire a still small voice. 

"And it was so that when Elijah heard it, 
that he wraped his face in his mantle, and went 
out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And 
behold there came a voice unto him, and said : 
'What doest thou here, Elijah' " This account, 
as recorded in the ninteenth chapter of first 
Kings, reveals a lesson along the line of cabal- 
istic or Esoteric Masonry, but clothed in or- 
iental language. Elizabeth Towne of the Nau- 
tilus, if called upon to describe this light would 
call it the illumination or light from the solar 
plexus, and thus make it Western, and strip 
from it all tracings of Special Providence 
miracles, where it rightly belongs. 

Moses saw the "burning bush" that was not 
consumed. Saul of Tarsus, when converted, 
saw the "light shine from Heaven" and heard 
the still small voice. 

A rose though called by another name is just 
as sweet. 

There are thousands all over the world that 
are conversant with the light of the solar 



o6 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

plexus, the illumination of the interior and the 
"still small voice." These people, while they 
are taught by the spirit in the minute affairs 
of the daily life, do not regard it as a visitation 
of Divine favor. 

It is the independent, the self-sustaining in- 
dividual who makes the world the better for 
their living. I knew a young lady teacher of 
sterling worth, that in passing an examination 
for a teacher's certificate misspelled a word 
given by the examining board. When told that 
she had spelled it wrong she insisted that she 
had not, that she knew perfectly well that she 
had spelled it correctly. She was denied a 
certificate. A principal of a denominational 
college heard of the incident, sent for the lady 
and gave her employment as a teacher in his 
school, saying that he wanted all the teachers 
of that class that he could find. 

The individual in the army is what makes a 
strong army. Every German soldier, from the 
highest officer to the lowest private, is educated 
as to his duties when the call Ki io arms" is giv- 
en. Every man is ready to jump to his post 
and execute his orders to the letter, there and 
then. When the call comes, the world will 
tremble with the execution of those orders. 

The individual in mechanics, in the crafts, in 
the trades, is what makes a strong nation. 
Every man that can do his part and do it right. 

Today every trade journal, every religious 
paper, every magazine, from all over the world, 
laments that the churches and the people are 



COUNTING THE COST 57 

separating ; that a wide gap is being formed be- 
tween them that will not be bridged; that this 
ever widening gap threatens destruction to all 
religious organization. What else can be ex- 
pected? What else has been on the "trestle 
board" for the last hundred years? 

In ilartin Luther 's time the greatest problem 
was how many devils could dance on the point 
of a cambric needle. When a pebble cast in 
the pool and made a commotion on the water 
that the waves were caused by the devils stir- 
ring about in the water. Read the life of Mar- 
tin Luther. July, 1912, when 4,000 Bible stu- 
dent met in Washington, D. C, and passed res- 
olutions that the hell-fire, as mentioned in the 
Bible, was not literal fire and brimstone. One 
hundred years, and such an advancement as 
that to be accounted for in all those years of 
labor and wealth expended in religion ! 

Years ago, at an age of which no one knows 
that day or age, there were stone cutters that 
formed a union and gathered about them such 
members who understood the facts concerning 
the illumination of the interior and the still 
small voice. They used the utmost care that 
only those were admitted to membership. They 
individualized to that extent and their 
gatherings w^ere fruitful of great good. 
They formed an altar in the lodge to symbolize 
lhe internal fire, placed the altar in the center 
of the lodge and thereon kept an illumination. 
They held the altar and its fire so sacred that 
Tio op.p would pass between the altar and the 



58 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

Master. It was an association of like minded 
people meeting whereby they might exchange 
observations along the line of the illuminating 
force and the still small voice of the spirit 
teaching the independent, the individual, the 
way of life. In the union they gained strength. 
The "still small voice" as known to the Stone- 
cutter's Union was a knowledge known to each 
individual member and it need not be imparted 
by a master. If the churches had a few thous- 
and individualists, or independents there would 
not be the want of faith in the churches and 
teachers that is now creating so much unrest. 
Swedenborg said that angels were as real as 
men; that they lived in houses as do men; that 
they had organs like those in man. We find 
splendid characters who are preachers in the 
different orthodox churches who assure us that 
they have seen Jesus, the Christ. With all the 
positive conviction of their soul, they believe 
the form seen was in fact the visitation of 
Jesus, and that his appearance was a Divine 
revelation planned for their individual bene- 
fit. It is a belief in the minds of the best 
phychics, that the form, as known as Jesus, is 
a religious thought form only — a national form 
built by the combined pictural forms of Jesus 
as known from childhood ; that Jesus as a sep- 
arate spirit has long ages ago gone beyond the 
range of the keenest psychic sight. If one will 
take the pains to inquire of the many profound 
religious or sensitive or psychic people who are 
living near, one will find that among them they 



COUNTING THE COST 59 

have seen the form all exactly alike. Some 
seeing the form of Jesus crucified on a cross, 
others on a tree, but in every instance the 
facial expression has been the same with all 
who have seen the form. Try it and be con- 
vinced that this is true. 

I know of six different individuals living in 
one small town, who have seen the form of 
Jesus and upon careful inquiry as to the de- 
scription of the form as seen by each person, 
there w^as not the slightest variation in the 
form, or facial expression, cut of hair or style 
of the beard. In other places I have met with 
the same facts and they too. see the same re- 
ligious form as was seen by the others men- 
tioned. 

We have a limitation of our organs. Some 
have faculties so developed that they excel 
others in one way, in some special faculty and 
yet may be limited in some other faculty. I 
knew a good lumberman that always secured 
the best wages for his knowledge of timber and 
logging skill. This man would get lost when 
alone, and it was with great difficulty that he 
would go into a tract of wooded land without 
getting lost. He loved to hunt in winter, when 
not in the lumber business. He always went 
with hunters that carried a horn and would de- 
pend on them to guide him through the woods. 
On one occasion while in the woods be became 
lost and when the other hunters took his track 
in the snow and trailed him up, they found him 
sitting on a log fixing his pocket compass. 



60 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

When they assured him that his compass was 
not out of order, that he was lost, he w^ould not 
believe it, and it w r as with difficulty that they 
persuaded him to follow them. A year later 
he lost his life in the woods hunting, and was 
not found until the snow melted the next 
spring. He would not follow a compass even 
when lost ; so sure was he that his sense of di- 
rection was correct that nothing could per- 
suade him differently. Not being fully con- 
scious of his limitation he would blindly wan- 
der on, ignoring all traces of landmarks by 
which he might have been guided home. 

Divine visitations. Special providence, is 
not getting the attention that it once received, 
and religion is fast undergoing a change. 
Jesus is no less real today than when he taught 
as a teacher in Israel. If there is any change 
created by the new thought creation, it is in 
favor of Jesus as now contemplated along lines 
possible to be attained by the mortal, aside 
from the special providence and Divine visita- 
tions and the individual or the independent 
who has labored in the vineyard is worthy his 
hire and should have fair compensation for his 
labors. 

There was a good old circuit rider who would 
often stay over night and often over Sunday 
at my father's house in Dekalb County, Mo. 
This good old man, Hugh Teel, on one of these 
occasions, told my parents that he had been 
visited by Jesus recently, he said; that he was 
going home after finishing his circuit preach- 



COUNTING THE COST 61 

tag and that he stopped one very warm day to 
let his horse rest in the shade of a tree, and 
there he was visited by Jesus, in form as clear- 
ly as if in the flesh. I listened with great 
earnestness, and mentally prayed that such a 
great blessing would some time be my lot. The 
good old preacher improved in the earnestness 
of his work, renewed his efforts to save souls 
and it seemed to be nearing Heaven to listen to 
his words after knowing that he had been Di- 
vinely visited by the Savior. I met another 
Methodist preacher later, that had nearly the 
same experience as the one mentioned with 
Hugh Teel. After I had met many such people 
some of whom were not believers and some of 
whom were infidels, it began to dawn upon me 
that there was another reason for the vision, 
aside from Divine visitations. 

Far be it from me to say that these might 
not be all they claimed in the way of Divine 
visitations. Give them all the credit the facts 
will bear. If some one sees farther into Heaven 
than we, and can get a better interpretation 
of phenomena than we, it is to their credit and 
we can but say in large capital letters God bless 
them. 

In the practical world when one is tracing 
the thoughts of the sick, attempting to create 
the form of perfection in the mind of the sick, 
or the one in trouble, in distress financially, 
physically, that they meet with the form of 
Jesus more often than any other form. It is 
human to appeal, in time of trouble, to a higher 



G2 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

power, and one when trying to establish a forni, 
an emblem of peace in one that is crushed to 
earth by a load of worry and trouble and when 
the form of Jesus appears one cannot but feel 
like taking off their shoes and calling that holy 
ground upon which the form of Jesus appears. 
Let the troubled appeal to Jesus. They will 
get a benefit, a consolation from it and no harm 
will come of it. Do not take from any one 
their support. 



CHAPTER \\ 

Methods of Attainment 

There is said to be about fifteen hundred dif- 
ferent methods of spiritual attainment, any one 
of which would meet the desired result. 

I read a work, by Heartman, I believe it 
was, which mentioned a process that was giv- 
en by some monks to the people to secure this 
attainment. The monks got in great trouble 
over it and were expelled from the church in 
disgrace for so doing. 

The process was to face the east, sitting at 
regular intervals for half an hour daily, and 
later increase the duration to a longer time. 
There is known a process called the crystal 
gazing process. This does not meet with fa- 
vor with the Western students of occultism. 

H. E. Butler, in a work called "Narrow Way 
of Attainment," goes into details as to the In- 
dian method of attainment. This is similar to 
the above method with the difference that in 
"Narrow Way of Attainment" the idea of the 
Deity must be kept ever in prayerful memory, 
and an appeal made for such light, wisdom and 
guidance as the student desires. This work is 
'of great worth to those desiring to know the 
process of attainment. 

In "Mental Evolution" by Samuel Rastal, 
the development in the independent process is 



64 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

somewhat similar to the above mentioned pro- 
cesses. In this he says, ' c endeavor to make the 
mind blank as near as possible ; but do not doze. 
Stop thinking, but do not lose consciousness. 
At first the thought forces will be very active, 
but after a while will become restful and com- 
posed." 

Somewhere along the line there was a leak 
of Divine guidance and much censure was pro- 
nounced upon some one unnamed for the leak- 
age. 

Whether the party divulging the information 
was attempting to do a great and lasting bene- 
fit or what the reason for censure was, I never 
learned. 

The martyr defenders of the truth w T ere of 
this class, unguarded, unprotected and it was 
no great sacrifice on their part to be compelled 
to die for the cause. Ingersol said he was not 
made of the stuff that martyrs are made of, 
One Pacific Coast lady said, after she had 
traveled around the world, and had learned of 
what martyrdom meant, that she would re- 
nounce, with the great calmness and heroic sub- 
mission, anything that appeared to be attached 
to her mental make-up. Ingersol and this 
lady mentioned, stand high in my estimation of 
real worth, in what appears to them as the 
truth. Possibly with Ingersol, Thomas Pain 
and other infidels, or those that failed to see 
as did the church in matters of theology, that 
they leveled down the edifices that did not 



METHODS OF ATTAINMENT 60 

appeal to their mode of thinking and did not 
build in return for the structures torn down. 

One other detrimental delusion is the crush- 
ing out influence that attacks the early seeker 
for truth in Methaphysics. There are schools 
and sects which advocate the crushing out the 
affections. It is a delusion as much as the one 
that impoverishes the student. It is the law 
of cause and effect. Passing the moon vibra- 
tions, incidental to the new life, opens the gate 
for a flood of negations these are the first ones 
to seek admittance. 

There is an evolutionary process at work 
lifting the race to a higher plane. This is slow. 
Ages are required in accomplishing what might 
be accomplished in a few years in this attain- 
ment. 

There was a man of refinement who had a 
well kept castle. He lived all alone, as he sup- 
posed. He was given to meditation, was of a 
quiet nature. As the days went by, he thought 
he detected the working of someone in friendly 
offices in his welfare. He was positive that no 
one but himself occupied the castle. The min- 
istration was continued day by day. He knew 
that his sight and hearing were normal, that no 
defect existed in either. What could it mean? 
After the evidence became too strong for fur- 
ther doubt, he resigned himself to the fact that 
there was a ministering hand at work there for 
his benefit. He knew the party could not be 
but a friend. He watched with eager eyes 
nearly constantly. He listened witli the most 



66 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

acute ear to catch any sound that might be 
made in the castle. 

After thus bending every effort to catch the 
sight and sound of the party dwelling there 
with him in the temple or castle, he became 
aware of the presence of a form, a person, an 
influence; yet his sight was unable to de- 
tect who or what it was — yet it was there. Af- 
ter a long time, there appeared to be a gray 
cloud come before his vision, and in this gray 
cloud or light, he noticed forms of birds, flow- 
ers, trees, people, cities, lakes, rivers. There 
appeared to be a panorama of the most fascin- 
ating scenes float past as he watched now seem- 
ingly not with the material sight, but with a 
new sight that had been acquired, and also 
there came to him voices of people in broken 
sentences at first. Yet the form that he had 
been seeking was not yet apparent to him. It 
was this one mission that he had started on, 
and amid the scenes that fascinated him he kept 
a sharp lookout for the party in that castle 
with him — his friend. After he had acquired 
a mint of knowledge as an incident to the 
watch he had kept up, the form appeared to 
him, face to face, clear, white, a form the per- 
fect counterpart of himself, only youthful in 
appearance. Was he seeing himself was his 
first wonder? Then it dawned upon him that 
this was "spiritual consciousness.' ' Then he 
knew that he was a spirit. That he had always 
been one and knew it not. This great discov- 
ery astonished him and in making researches 



METHODS OF ATTAINMENT 67 

among others, he found that others had made 
the same discovery — not many, but a chosen 
few— who had camped on the path of perpetual 
perseverence. A lady whom he met had pass- 
ed through the same experience, and these two 
had many experiences, in common, to relate, 
much to be thankful that they now had at- 
tained to a degree whereby there was no dis- 
tance in nature ; that the spirit could commune 
with like spirits of those living at any distance. 

Let all who do not know, declare the temple 
is not inhabited. To those who know better, it 
is idle talk. 

The human body is likened to a violin, or it 
is said to be a violin. I knew a young man 
that traded for a violin. He was proud of the 
advancement he was making with the instru- 
ment. He neglected his father's fields, how- 
ever, which did not meet with his father's ap- 
proval. One day his father smashed the fiddle 
over the bed post and made splinters of it. 

The boy's brother was a carpenter and took 
the pieces and glued them in place as best he 
could. The violin was greatly improved in 
sound after being fixed. Adversity improved 
it greatly. 

A violin maker on the Pacific coast made two 
violins. They were made of the same kind of 
wood, made over the same pattern, and no one 
could detect the slightest difference in them by 
looks. One proved to be a splendid instru- 
ment ; is today doing splendid work in Europe, 
where it is used at the royal feasts and balls. 



68 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

It is worth its weight in gold. The other violin, 
its exact mate, was a dismal failure, and was 
consigned to the scrap heap in its infancy. 

If words refuse to come at command to 
clothe the thoughts in trying to explain this 
beautiful theme of the soul's consciousness, 
there is no possible way in which to bridge over 
the difficulty. 

Theosophists had to invent a language en- 
tirely new, having no relation with the words 
as met with in the transaction of any relation, 
social, moral, political, or anything under the 
sun or in the earth beneath. 

Jesus wrote but a few words. Swedenborg 
wrote largely. It is said that in his last days 
he repented that he had written anything. 
He had lived along parallel with his efforts to 
make the people understand wdiat he was try- 
ing to explain. He had lived too long or he 
made a mistake in attempting to make himself 
understood* 

One philosopher of the old school taught that 
nature worked in circles. Now a new teacher 
comes in the arena and declares that nature 
works in spirals; that there are no circles in 
nature. 

Astronomers inform us that all the planetary 
systems have a motion about another system, 
and that they are many thousand years in mak- 
ing the journey. That two or more suns with 
all their planets that circle about them obey the 
same law as to some other larger sun, and that 
they carry all their planets about that larger 



METHODS OF ATTAINMENT 69 

sun and make the jouney in many thousands of 
years ; all circling about and traveling on in 
space to an unknown destiny. Thus, the 
planetary space is governed by some law that 
carries all the planets on and on around circles, 
while yet traveling to a far point beyond the 
possible range of the most powerful telescope. 
The perusal of a single lesson in astronomy fills 
one with wonder and bewilderment in contem- 
plating infinity. 

I met Death in my garden — 

Now what could death be wanting there 

For naught my garden holdeth, 

Save roses blooming fair ? 

I made a parley with him — ■ 
If he would leave to me 
My roses- — I would give him 
A wreath from my laurel tree. 

But never a word Death answered. 
Oh, Life thou art sweet ! 
The rose leaves fell all dying 
Beneath Death's passing feet, 

I listened all the night : 
God did not speak a word ; 
I only heard my own wild heart 
With its wild longings stirred. 

I looked to the fartherst star, 
God did not show his face. 
Between the stars and me I saw 
A phantom with your grace. 



TO BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

I felt the livelong night 
That God was not anywhere, 
In Heaven or upon the earth — 
But you and I were there. 

—Jean, 



CHAPTER VI 

Symbols. 

The world is an open book of symbols if 
one would but look about and read. There 
is only one book — the book of Nature. It does 
not record one false entry. The law of pro- 
duction may be obscured to the mind of the 
finite, but the infinite makes no false entries. 

The Alchemists worked with great care in 
the discovery of the secrets of nature. They 
mixed base metals in the furnace, it is said, 
and in the molten mass they put their thoughts, 
that the mass might be a metal of superior val- 
ue. That is the way the world reads the transac- 
tion. Those having spiritual consciousness see 
in this process another working aside from the 
gathering of metals of great worth. 

In the visions of the prophet and seer there 
appears gold, silver, gems, jewels and base 
metals, all portraying a line of lessons in the 
occult. The mental student sees in the vision 
a lesson by the use of gold portrayed in a 
dream, or vision. He sees also silver, which is, 
in a lesser degree, a lesson of great value. All 
along the line these appear, and in the crusible, 
the solar plexus furnace, the sea of fire, which 
is known only to the spiritually conscious per- 
son — the Alchemist, the metal scientist moulds 
his destiny. Materialists see in the story only 



T2 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

the material metals of the minerologist and 
ponder over the story and wonder how anyone 
could be so short-sighted as to mix metals with 
thought. Let it go that way. A lifetime of 
explanation would not make it clear to a mind 
wholly absorbed in the material things of life. 

Happy might we be were the ancient grove 
worship re-established in its original purity- 
free from the base designs to which it was put 
in the base designs of man. 

Trees form a long line of beautiful lessons to 
the spiritually conscious or the independent, as 
lie should be called. 

One could never tire in listening to a child 
of God revealing the lessons in the beautiful 
symbol language of the tree life. 

The spirit has no limitation. Man is finite, 
lias a narrow range of vision as a man, a think* 
hag being, before he is made one with the spirit. 
Emerson says: ''We see the world piece by 
piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the 
tree ; but the whole, of which these are the 
shining parts, is the soul. It is only by the 
vision of that Wisdom that the horoscope of the 
ages can be read, and it is only by falling back 
on our better thoughts, by yielding to the spirit 
of prophesy which is innate in every man, that 
we can know what it saith. ?> 

In the forests of Washington, on the Pacific- 
coast, lie prone on the ground, red cedar trees 
that register an age of two thousand five hun- 
dred years, over which are growing the same 
class of cedar that have pinned, with their 



SYMBOLS 73 

roots, the fallen trees and that register an age 
of one thousand five hundred years ; making a 
history of at least four thousand years. It 
must even be more than that, for the fallen 
cedars were lying on the ground the seeds from 
the by-standing trees dropped the seeds that 
took root on the bark of the fallen cedars, and 
these seeds germinated and the roots of the 
young cedars traveled around the bark of the 
fallen cedars and thus went into the ground 
and pinned the fallen trees. At the Lewis and 
Clarke centennial in 1907, at Portland, Ore., a 
section of both the under cedar and the green 
<eedar that was pinning it down, was on exhibi- 
tion. From the under tree that registered a date 
back for four thousand years, good sound 
shingles were made, and were exhibited at the 
fair. However, one can go in the forest and 
find his own specimens lying in that state at 
this time find the green red cedar growing over 
it that hold in their combined ages, the ages 
mentioned. 

There is a fascination about the forest. It 
appeals to one in a manner that is difficult to 
express. Only when the spirit begins to reveal 
in picture form, as the gray light is revealed 
and as the symbols are brought to light in the 
Book of Nature, does one notice what is pass- 
ing, and what lessons are revealed by the 
symbols. 

One might fill a good sized volume by the les- 
sons taught by the symbols of trees alone. The 
spirit selects a language all its own in which to 



74 BORDER-LAND IX SYMBOLS 

instruct the mortal that houses the spirit and 
in these lessons that are made simple, one can 
dwell in the raptures of the intoxication of de- 
light. 

Cedars have stood for rulers in all the ages 
of man, from his first lesson in symbol lan- 
guage to the present date. 

The beautiful symbol of the towering tall 
evergreen trees of the Pacific coast beautifully 
symbolize the "nation yet to be. The first 
low wash of wave where soon shall roll a hu- 
man sea." A haven of rest, a harbor of de- 
light. Here no Christian has ^hed his blood in 
defence of his love for God. No sects, creed 
or power of isms have set their seal and curse 
on the freedom of man. The rivers come from 
a thousand streams, these streams from many 
thousand springs, and all flow into the bosom 
of the eternal ocean of time that beats against 
the shores with a music that lulls the mind to 
sleep. New and eternal — will ever the hand 
rest heavily upon these beautiful symbols? 
Will the cruel woodsman fell the magnificent 
forest and leave instead a land of snags and 
stumps. Now the "seas roll over sands of 
gold," the mica skirts the shallow waters 
along the river's edge and as the gentle waves 
wash back and forth rolling up this flaked mica 
that resembles gold, we look with pride on the 
crystal steams as they flow on and on like the 
infinite ocean of light of which we are all a 
part. 

The timber line is fringed with the violet, 



SYMBOLS 75 

the symbol of fidelity. Nature's open book 
records the acts of fidelity as the seasons yield 
their bountiful supplies. The yellow bloom 
lives a near neighbor to the violet. The yellow 
as a symbol of constancy that is a telling virtue 
of the country. Deep in the dark recesses of 
the woods, everywhere the pure white lily car- 
pets the ground — a symbol of light and joy. 
In the fern, nature has worked faithfully and 
earnestly, and has made a dense growth of 
eternal green fern — hope being the symbol 
represented by the fern. Hope shall not fail, 
the heart shall not grow faint. Every desire 
of the heart will be consumated. No less beau- 
tiful is the fringe of the wild rose that paints 
the water's edge, the mountain sides, the ra- 
vines and hills with a red glow — a symbol of 
fervency. 

Swedenborg wrote a dictionary of symbols. 
It has long since been lost sight of. Possibly 
it may be found and reprinted that the nations 
may be benefitted by the definition in dream, 
in vision, in living experience of the symbols 
therein given. 

Before Cleveland was elected to the presi- 
dency, a man living in New England saw a 
vision that caused him much difficulty. He 
moved to Mexico, fearing the United States 
was going to be destroyed. After some time 
had elapsed and the United States was undis- 
turbed, he wrote his reason for going to Mex- 
ico. Had he made inquiry of friends who had 
3. knowledge of the symbols, he might have 



7G BORDER-LAXD IN SYMBOLS 

saved himself much needless worry. What he 
saw was this : There appeared to him a map 
of the United States, covered by evergreen 
trees with here and there a tall cedar, which 
towered above the other timber. He saw this 
all sink, the cedars fall and all leveled to the 
earth. It was a political change, but not a 
change in the earth formation. The symbol 
revealed only the political conditions. The 
same was seen in relation with Spain, when, or 
before the war was begun. I presume one 
could find many that had visions or dreams of 
the exact condition appearing in Cuba. While 
to one person the conquest of a nation would 
be represented in that way to another person 
or to the same person at another time, it would 
be given by the vision of an army marching 
and the generals leading the victorious flag 
carried ahead of the army in triumph. 

Visions of trees tell the condition as to the 
health of the person referred to in the vision or 
dream. Thus, when a mental healer is treat- 
ing a patient he will see forms of trees come 
plainly to view. In the healthy or sickly con- 
dition of the trees he judges of the seriousness 
of the person he is treating, by absent treat- 
ment. The healer that is spiritually conscious, 
lias a world all to himself in the line of sym- 
bols, and he is never at a loss to know what is 
being done or what needs to be done. The 
spirit within him talks to the spirit direct in 
the one being treated. The soul in prison is 
liberated in that way by him. I presume, they 



SYMBOLS 77 

Would not care to have one reveal their secrets 
along this line. But, should you have a doubt, 
you ask any healer whom you know is clairvoy- 
ant and see what he will say. They never treat 
the dead. This space is too short to treat of 
even the small part of the symbols to which the 
healers resort to for their guidance. 

The cattle in the valley, the sheep on a thous- 
and hills, have their lesson. 

Fat cattle reveal success, while lean cattle 
mean the opposite. The dream that Joseph in- 
terpreted, as recorded in the Bible, was a clear 
example of the interpretation of dreams where 
cattle are used as a symbol. Joseph said: "It 
is not in me ; God shall give Pharoah an answer 
of peace." The dream of the seven fat cattle 
and the seven lean cattle was interpreted. 
Previous to that, a dream of three bunches of 
grapes growing on one stem, was revealed. 

It is not an uncommon thing to hear ladies 
relate dreams of seeing dressed beef brought to 
their home when making preparation for an en- 
tertainment. Where the dressed beef was in 
good condition as to freshness, the receptions, 
parties, entertainments were a success. One 
morning, some months ago, my wife awakened 
and said: "I dreamed a wagon load of dressed 
beef and pork was unloaded on the porch, and 
it awakened me. What does it mean?" 

I said: "You have a party tomorrow, where- 
in you have invited many ladies, and it is tell- 
ing you that the party will be all that you can 



78 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

hope for." It was a perfect, harmonious, 
pleasant party. 

Fat cattle, when owned by the party seeing 
the vision, means another degree of success, as 
business or financial success. 

Sheep refer to spiritual advancement. A 
child born to one means advancement in a new 
spiritual calling. 

Horses enter into a long line of symbols that 
require close attention to gather the meaning. 
AYhere one sees bay horses hitched to an empty 
conveyance, it signifies want of success on that 
scheme, enterprise or calling, and idle under- 
takings and want of perfect success. Bay 
horses hauling a farm wagon loaded with grain 
means financial success to the one owning the 
load. If it refers to some one else in the 
vision, it means the same for them. 

Suppose you are asked by one whom you 
never met, to see in silence the condition of a 
person named, say across the continent from 
you. Should you see that person, and in their 
possession a hand full of corn, or other grain, 
.say a little in a bag, you would interpret the 
symbol as meaning that person had next to 
nothing. 

Where one is associated with a great quantity 
of grain, that person is in good financial con- 
dition. 

I have met with so many people who have 
dreamed of plowing a field ready to plant crops 
of grain. Others were cultivating young corn. 
Others Lai corn nearly ripe in the ear, while 



SYMBOLS 79 

others had a large field of corn that they were 
gathering. Others were husking their corn to 
find that it was nearly all blighted. Those 
whom the independents have called up in si- 
lence have been associated with the same con- 
ditions as to symbols. You will readily see 
what it means, as the different degrees of per- 
fection show in the symbols. 

A party had a photograph gallery, and had 
parties canvassing for him on the coupon plan. 
One night he dreamed that he had in his smoke 
house three dressed hogs. Two of them were 
fresh and sweet, the third one was putrid — all 
were of the same weight. In a day or two, 
two of the men returned with good reports ; the 
other agent never returned, but had collected 
all he could get and left the country, leaving 
the photographer many dollars in debt to the 
parties from whom he had taken orders and 
collected the pay. 

The Bible mentions pitfalls, marshes, muddy 
w r ater and the like as bad symbols. Like all 
the symbols, these can be interpreted in the 
magnitude in which given. A party dreamed 
that his grandchild was being wheeled across 
the street, and the mud was so deep that the 
buggy could not be taken across. The dream 
was revealed twice the same night. The next 
morning the grandfather went to the city 
where his grandson lived and found the boy 
was very sick. 

A good old Presbyterian elder, well along in 
years, dreamed that he was far into a swamp 



RLAJSTD IX SYMB 

and could not get to shore. He related this 
al time to friends. The dream was re- 
1 and as he was then in good health, it 
seemed to mean nothing. He was taken 
and went down rapidly, and within a few days 
was dead. 

A lady called on an independent and as 
him to see what was wrong, or in for a 

party who she named. id she would call 

again and see what message was given. The 
independent met her in a day or two. told her 
that the party was far in the south, that he wa* 
very sick — would die away from home and 
friends: all his property b*> lost. The lady 
could not believe that it was so bad as that. 
In a few days she met the independent again 
and showed him a telegram which read: "Mr. 
Blank is dying. Come quick/' His body wa^ 
shipped home. He died in San Francisco with 
not a friend near. He had property, and now 
that was to be accounted for. The man^ 
brother's son took consumption, he traveled, 
doctored and spent all the money of the estate 
and left the children of the deceased destitute. 
Thus, the whole vision was consumated. 

An attorney of prominence, in Nebraska, had 
asked for the office of oil inspector for the 
state. He sent a friend to intercede with the 
governor for the place for him. Later the 
man's wife dreamed that their team of bay 
horses ran away, scattered the wagon along 
the road, the team ran away out of sight. There 
mbols along with this dream. She 



SYMBOLS 8i 

related the matter to a friend and was assured 
that her husband s place was taken by another 
and lost. The party wrote to the governor 

and got a reply that Mr. — , the same 

man whom the attorney had sent to assist him 
to get the place, w r as appointed. The agent of 
the attorney played a mean trick and stole the 
place which he had been sent to get for his 
friend ; had been paid for his efforts to get the 
place. 

An inventor who had a combination rat trap* 
paper rack, mole trap and bread toaster was 
selling al)Out enough of the invention to pay 
his expenses. He dreamed that by combining 
a part of another invention he w r ould do better, 
lie made the combination and when he showed 
all the advantages of the invention to a lady 
she did not care for it. When he showed her 
that by the use of the two combined she could 
see and hear all that was being said and done 
in a closed room adjoining, she took a dozen of 
the machines. She could loan some of them to 
friends, could attend church, or theaters with- 
out getting a new gow r n. 

Parties have asked: "Does God condescend 
to meddle w r ith the affairs of the people ?" He 
appeared to Joseph in a dream, warned him to 
go to Egypt. People ask for grain, good crops, 
health, happiness. Preachers pray that the arm 
of the army will be strengthened so the soldiers 
might kill more of the enemy and thus hasten 
the peace. 

One does not have to be a Christian to have 



82 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

his requests granted. One prominent New 
Thought lecturer advocated the idea that one 
might swear at the Almighty if he so chose ; 
that God rather admired a man that got up 
courage enough to do something. 

T heard an attorney relate a dream that dis- 
turbed him. He dreamed that he met a starved, 
lean horse. The horse tried to injure him by 
biting, striking and pushing him against the 
fence. It was with difficulty that he calmed 
the angered animal. The next day he knew 
what was before him. He had not long to wait. 
A client came to him for whom he had lost a 
suit in court. The fault was all the client's as 
he had omitted to get the right witnesses want- 
ed ; had put his hopes on the attorney without 
good evidence. Tn place of smashing the furni- 
ture over the head of the angry client, the at- 
torney made the matter clear as to how the 
suit was lost, and thus saved trouble by know- 
ing what was before him. 

A lady in Indiana, east of Chicago. w r as seen 
one morning by her cousin on the Pacific coast, 
while she was in the act of digging some holes 
in the yard with a spade. It was the middle 
of December and the ground was frozen. 

AYhen her Pacific coast cousin wrote her and 
asked why she was digging that time of the 
year, she replied that at that hour, which was 
ten o'clock, she was going to attend a funeral 
of a friend, she feared that the grave was not 
finished as the ground was frozen six feet deep. 



SYMBOLS 83 

Lincoln saw himself in state some weeks be- 
fore the assassin fired the fatal shot. 

Mark Twain related that at a reception where 
many people had gathered he saw a lad}' come 
in at a door at the opposite side of the house, 
He waited in line for the lady to pass. As she 
did not appear he asked where she was. When 
told that the lady had not been present he 
wrote to her and asked how it could be that he 
had seen her there. She replied that she great- 
ly desired to attend the reception, that she 
was prevented from so doing but her mind was 
centered on the reception and in that way she 
appeared to him. 

He relates another instance while on the 
Mississippi river, where in a dream he saw the 
body of his brother. The narrative went the 
rounds of the newspapers, and all are familiar 
with the event. 

The report of the location of a drowned 
woman, Mrs. Lucy Sommers, who wandered 
away from her sister, Mrs. R. B. Craig, of 822 
Fayett St., Peoria, 111., by Grace Holmes, a girl 
of ten years, created some excitement some 
years ago. The Mrs. Sommers was afflicted 
with dementia and in the night wandered from 
her sister's home. A search for her with blood 
hounds proved of no avail. The little prophet- 
ess told the searchers that she saw the lady 
wandering in the night ; she went with the 
party and followed each street, went to the 
Illinois river, showed the party w^here the lady 
walked in. went down and was lost sight of. A 



S4 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

search for her where the young lady indicated, 
brought no satisfaction, yet the girl said the 
net dragged the body, did not catch it. The girl 
appealed to a steamboat captain to go and get 
the drowned woman where she was fastened to 
a snag. But the captain dismissed her appeal 
as had others. When the river ice broke up, 
the body was found floating in the exact place 
indicated by the young girl. 

The foregoing instances will serve our pur- 
pose in relating instances that cannot well be 
set aside. The life of an independent is filled 
with instances of every day occurrences. They 
may not relate them, but they occur in and as 
a part of their lives. It is well not to con- 
found the mere accidental happenings of peo- 
ple where they by chance have a stray sight 
into the unknown with the well established 
sight of the independent who has been develop- 
ed, as have the other senses. A vast difference 
is noticeable. Where one has a glimpse once 
in a lifetime is very different from one that 
has the same sight about every hour, or a pan- 
orama of symbols floating past momentarily or 
as the silence is entered. 

If you desire more of the phenomena you can 
be abundantly satisfied by "providing all 
things," and learn the way by which the phen- 
omena are gathered. 

The faculty of vision, dreams or trance is 
beyond the power of the finite mind to explain. 
We harness the wind, the water falls, the elec- 
tric forces and make them do our bidding. 



SYMBOLS SB 

AVhen one attempts to define the power, the 
source, the utility of vision or dream, they are 
at once lost from want of words to define it. 

A student will awaken from a dream in which 
the solution of an intricate mathematical prob- 
lem has been solved and at once put the prob* 
3 em on paper and find it to be correct. 

A Scotch cattle dealer, when he had driven 
some fat cattle to market, some miles from his 
home, dreamed that his family was being 
killed by a burglar; that all had been killed 
but a daughter wiio had escaped and had gone 
to a cave some distance away and had hidden 
there. He dreamed the same over again, and 
it made such an impression on his mind that he 
went home at once and found all true as 
dreamed. He saw a track at the side of the 
house in the snow, of his daughter, and follow- 
ed it to the cave and there found his daughter, 
the only member of the family left, the others 
all killed as revealed in the dream. 

The cat family plays a large part in the land 
of dreams and visions. Any medium or inde- 
pendent you may find has a dread, a horor 
of any member of the feline family. It means 
so much to them, that they could heartily wish 
that there were no cats in the world. It is 
treachery all along the line wherever the vision 
or dream of a cat takes place. A fierce cat 
will haunt one and threaten to injure, and one 
is not at a loss to know that a guard must be 
thrown around one's footsteps to ward off the 
danger. 



SG BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

Snakes play a large part in the symbol lan- 
guage in revealing treachery, deception, cun- 
ning and danger. While in a vision or dream 
where one kills the snake it reveals a degree 
of overcoming the treachery. 

I presume, that person never lived who has 
not at some time been warned, in dream or 
vision of threatened danger, treachery or dup- 
licity, and there is no more perfect symbol of 
this than to dream of or see a vision of snakes 
threatening the party. 

One dark night, while in company with a 
friend, we were walking along an unlighted 
street. We passed along a stone wall and as we 
had nearly passed the wall my friend stopped 
and looked about. He then went on again for 
a few steps and stopped and looked back again. 
I asked him what was wrong, for he seemed 
puzzled. He replied that he felt like an as- 
sassin was behind the stone wall. We went 
close to the wall along the path we had come, 
and under a limb of a tree on the wall there 
was crouched a large black cat. That satisfied 
the man, and he stated that whenever coming 
in contact with a cat after night the sensation 
was as if meeting an assassin. He said : "A 
cat means so much in symbol. 5 ' People with 
loving dispositions will pet a cat and take the 
greatest care of one, and in the night that cat 
will roam the streets killing every bird they 
come to, and it is said that a eat will kill fifty 
birds a week. We wonder why there are no 
birds in town where people love them so much 



SYMBOLS! S7 

and feed them. They feed them to make them 
tame for the murderous eats to kill. 

The symbols of snow when in vision or dream 
reveal adversity. If one slides over the snow 
and barely touches it, it indicates a degree of 
success in overcoming adversity. It means ad- 
versity in any symbol that snow can be referred 
to. While mud and muddy water indicates ad- 
versity, it is of another class of adversity and 
just in proportion to the thickness of the mud, 
the number of the steps in crossing it, does the 
adversity continue. If but a few steps are tak- 
en in passing over a muddy road, the duration 
of the sickness will be that long in proportion, 
When one finds himself mired in a swamp from 
which he cannot extricate himself, he will re- 
member all that life has held for him, for his 
days are numbered- — smile as he may at the 
wisdom of God and the foolishness of man as 
it is called. He will go hence and all the physi- 
cians or metaphysicians on earth will not be 
able to turn the adversity aside ; he will go soon 
after that symbol is revealed. Should you find 
yourself in but a few steps of mire and you 
reach the solid earth in a step or two, you can 
laugh at the temporary- adversity and let it 
pass. 

The dreamer is delighted with clear water in 
dream or vision, and wherever this is revealed 
delight comes from it and only pleasure results 
from such symbols and the dreamer is rewarded 
by getting glad tidings — a letter from a friend 
or some evidence of gladness. One cannot but 



SS BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

contemplate what a contrast there is in the con- 
dition of the two symbols. The Bible speaks of 
the floods, the clear waters, the brooks, and 
wherever it refers to these it brings a pleasure 
to the reader. In song, in romance, the clear 
streams are woven in as a pleasant dream — a 
Heaven of rest. 

There is not the slightest difference in the 
nationality wherein the spirit reveals the beau- 
ties of the symbols in spiritual lessons. God is 
no respecter of persons — does not select any one 
nation on which to bestow his loving kindness. 
There are schools of religion that deny their 
own senses — discard all that is good. 

A lady dreamed that her son drowned in a 
deep pool of muddy water; that she saw him 
swept over the falls and lost from sight. She 
followed along the stream and in a pool of clear 
water she saw him and carried him home. Her 
son was in good health at the time of the dream, 
but was taken sick and went down rapidly and 
was at death's door for weeks^ but recovered. 

Herbert Spencer was a good billiard player. 
He said that to be a good billiard player was 
evidence of scholarship. One day a young bil- 
liard player engaged Spencer in a game of bil- 
liards and defeated him badly. Spencer saidr 
4 'To be a good billiard player is evidence of 
scholarship, but to be too good a player is evi- 
dence of much wasted time. " 

There are well educated men, scientists, that 
discard all evidence of the spirit in symbol 
form, treating it as a weakness. They declare 



SYMBOLS 89 

that a faculty above the normal, strengthened 
to a degree above the level of the ordinary man 
shows that person to be insane to the degree in 
which he possesses the superiority over others. 
Edison goes in the stillness of the midnight 
hours and alone he communes with nature, and 
declares that in this way has gained all his 
great discoveries. Richard Wagner would 
spend many an hour in his garden in the late 
hours of the night when all was hushed and 
-still and in this way caught the harmonic 
sounds that made him famous as a musician. 



CHAPTER VII. 

Silence. 

Silence has been the mystery all down the 
ages. It is the bridge of the Gods. The bridge 
over the gulf between the finite and the infinite. 
Here the noisy rabble of the pulsating, throb- 
bing being the material man must in a measure 
quiet down, and allow the spirit to come to the 
fore and watch the destinies of the passing as- 
sociates. It has to do with man primarily, for 
man is a god, a creator, a builder, an architect, 
a designer. He must build his own house, and 
whether that be good or bad, a palace or a 
hovel, a castle or a hut, he must dwell in it. 
If it falls on him and he is crushed, the fault is 
only his own. No man has anything to fear 
but himself. He has no other great enemy to 
contend with. Here the furnace, the crucible, 
the retort into which the choice metals along 
with the base metals are poured and separated. 
Every man is his own Alchemist. Gold will 
mingle with the baser metals, but if the admix- 
ture is not more nearly gold, if the proportion 
is not more gold than base metals, the composi- 
tion will not stand the acid test ; the application 
of the test will reveal the deception. 

Spirit has no limitation. Spirit speaks and 
other spirits hear; spirit acts and other spirits 
act in conjunction with it. Spirit never sleeps. 



SILENCE n 

That man was formed in mortal flesh, made a 
temple for the indwelling of a spirit or is a 
-spirit and mortal man being used as its messen- 
ger, its hired servant, its obedient servant, is 
the work of God for a purpose. 

When the observing designer, who formed the 
image of the Sphinx and placed it as a symbol 
that the whole world might look and take a 
lesson of the upbuilding of passion to the attri- 
butes of a God, he gave us a good lesson. The 
sphinx is part lion, part man, part demon, 
part god. Of all the animals that roam the 
earth, the lion is the most cold blooded lover to 
be found. No other lion that falls into his 
grasp has the least hope of mercy. He asks no 
excuses ; he grants no excuse to turn away his 
lusts. Age or condition appeals to him not in 
the least. Submission or death is the lot of the 
opposing mate. 

Silence is approached by the laity as was the 
borderland of Canaan when Moses sent out the 
-spies to search the land. It is the same place of 
wonder where Joshua was prepared to cross the 
river Jordan, when he sent out two spies to see 
what was in the land they desired to possess. 

Silence is the crossing of the clear stream, the 
murmering brook — the still waters. Into the 
<?lear waters of the flood we must plunge and 
cross or die. There does not live a being of 
normal mind who has not by dream or vision 
been found wading, swimming or in some way 
been attempting to cross this stream. 

Magicians tell us of it Metaphysicians speak 



92 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

of it. Poets write about it. Musicians com- 
pose and sing of it. Then what is it ? What is 
life? What is water? Who can create life? 
Who can create water ? Life and water are in- 
separable ; yet not the same. 

Silence is a condition. It is not a function. 
an office or performance : it is like Heaven, 
which is a condition. 

Jackson Davis calls it "the super condition.'' 
Davis said that to dwell in the complete super 
condition for half an hour, would cost a person 
their life. Jesus said: "Cannot ye watch with 
me one hour?" The Emerson Club, the Truth 
Circles, all give the warning that "one should 
not approach too near the Silence, the com- 
plete silence, for danger lurks there. " No 
danger of the injury to an ordinary Truth Cir- 
cle ever getting too near the Silence. One had 
as w r ell expect a lady dressed in a new silk bath- 
ing suit to get it wet above the knee as to ex- 
pect a member of the Truth Circle of getting 
into silence. 

A new bride gave a party to her former girl 
friends. The bride was happily married and 
her surroundings and social standing was of the 
best in the country. Her girl friends plied her 
with many questions, such as what was the tie 
of friendship, love, confiding companionship 
and the marriage relations of home, friends, 
environments. 

The new bride replied that to have a home 
free from worry — have all the wants of earning 
a livlihood taken care of, being surrounded by 



SILENCE 93 

friends was a great pleasure and made for 
happiness. The lady friends understood all 
that, "but what was love, confiding eompan- 
ship?" 

The new bride said : "That I can't explain to 
you, you must know, must experience that to 
know of it." 

Oriental feasts were never complete without 
a marriage feast. When the spirit and the body 
form a companionship, the one to know the 
other, then the marriage is all that the symbol 
language could express. 

Railroad companies fill deep depressions in 
the earth, over which they make their roads. 
They tunnel the mountains. They bridge wide 
rivers. When the Czar of Russia desired a rail- 
road from St. Petersburg to Moscow, he sum- 
moned the royal surveyors and told them his 
wishes. They made the survey. The road 
had many bends. The Czar took the map of 
Russia and with a lead pencil he drew a 
straight line from St. Petersburg to Moscow 
and said, "build the road like this." With the 
straightest railroad in the world, yet that i*oad 
is many miles in length — that it takes time to 
reach the destination. Who can bridge the 
rivers, level the mountains, contract the seas 
so that one can pass from the Pacific to the 
Atlantic in a moment's time; who can tell what 
one is doing, describe the contents of a home, 
see the inmates of any certain home at their 
meals, describe the location of each member of 
the family as accurately as if the people were 



tti BORDER-LAXD IN SYMBOLS 

but a few feet away. No mechanical means can 
do this. Silence does. Silence deals with 
thoughts, which J. Hannah Thompson and an 
army of other scientists say are things, reah 
Silence wraps the individual in a cloud of gray 
light and in this curtain there appears the 
thoughts of the one enquired after. Or if no 
one is being visited, then on the curtain there 
appears a panoramo, a kaleidoscope of forms 
each and every one of which is a lesson. The 
ocean of infinite light of which the spirit is a 
part, bathes the universe. Man, the microcosm 
floats in this ether, the ocean of light. To the 
spirit the ocean of light is the same as air is 
to the material body. One cannot exist with- 
out the other ; that is man cannot exist without 
the air. Spirit cannot exist without this ocean 
of light. When man lays down to rest, he goes 
back to the air mostly. ki Dust thou art and to 
dust returneth was not spoken of the 80111/' 
The Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary to have 
her intercede with Jesus for what they desire. 
The orthodox people pray direct to the Father, 
Each reach the desired result*. 

Spiritualists pray for their wants and submit 
to an intelligence unknown to them. They are 
the instrument through which the guides work 
and what is done they know not. What lesson 
is portrayed they know not. The independent 
does not surrender his intelligence, his body to 
such forces, but retains all the consciousness 
and knows what is given in picture form as a 



SILBNC 

lesson, or what is said if the spirit elects to talk 
orally in the silent voice. 

"How can this be attained?" is the enquiry 
of the many. One way to not attain it is to 
stay in the pulpit and preach the gospel. Ev- 
olution is for those who preach that word, as 
to what God is not. They have their reward. 
Some can attend the Salvation Army. God 
bless their work, their efforts, their means of 
lifting the fallen from the mire. To me it is 
like working with a steam shovel in digging a 
ditch through a swamp. And I repeat it God 
bless the Salvation Army. 

The prerequitite first, to attain Silence is to 
desire it. If you need it, if you want to learn 
of God, if you desire to elevate yourself so that 
you can elevate your associate, then you will 
find much of silence. 

I was in company with a man some years ago 
when the soldiers were going to the Phillipine 
Islands in the Spanish war. The boats were 
taking the soldiers from Portland, Ore , by 
transport. It was about eleven o'clock in the 
forenoon. A party to whom I was talking said, 
" Listen! The transport is leaving Portland 
with the soldiers." I said they were to go at 
nine A. M. He said, " can't you hear the band 
playing, 'The Girl I Left Behind Mc?' and can't 
you hear the cheering of the people!" I had 
as good hearing as anyone I thought, but I 
could not hear any of the sounds he referred to. 
After he listened a while, he said: "Now can't 
you feel the vibrations of the music; can't you 



96 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

feel the vibrations of the cheering?' ' Then I 
heard the band play "The Girl I Left Behind 
Me," as clearly as he did. Then the band 
broke into "My Country ; Tis of Thee." I 
learned a new lesson. It was seven miles away 
to where the transport was leaving the dock at 
Portland on its way to the Pacific ocean. I 
noted the time of hearing the music. I later 
asked a party who had been to see the trans- 
port leave, and I said they played "The Girl I 
Left Behind Me" and "America." He replied 
that they had and the moment given was exact. 
The waves of vibration registered in the ma- 
terial body though the sound was not distin- 
guishable to the ear. 

If time is plentiful with you, you need not be 
in any hurry, you can keep on being afraid of 
the silence and in a few thousand years you will 
be lifted by evolutionary means to a higher 
plane. 

The method of gaining phenomena is all 
there is in the difference in the schools of ad- 
vance thought. 

One that will antagonize any teaching to the 
extent which they draw down on themselves 
the hatred of the school criticised cannot but 
suffer from it. There is good in all religious 
teaching. Some teach one truth, others teach 
another truth, and no one has a patent on all 
the truth. The independent has access to the 
spiritual truths like the medium, but gathers 
the symbols in a different way. The medium 
surrenders himself to a force that speaks 



through him and it is this surrendering of the 
mentality that is regarded as dangerous. That 
where the mentality is surrendered to a force 
unknown to the medium, wherein the medium 
surrenders completely to that force, that is re- 
garded as dangerous, pernicious, and fruitful 
of only evil. They each have the same symbols 
to interpret, but the independent never sur= 
renders his mentality to any force unknown to 
himself, but retains his consciousness; will not 
use hypnotism in any form, seances, circles, 
table tipping or guides so called ; but will grow 
by degrees into the silence and there in the 
gray light watch the symbols as they float past 
and from each learn a lesson, and in so doing 
keep a prayerful longirg for an interpretation 
of the lessons as they are revealed to him. One 
is the the new school, the other the old school. 
One is the independent medium, or independent 
as they are known, the other is the medium* 
These have no quarrel with each other. They 
harmonize with each other, converse of the 
symbols, the great prophetic lessons that inter- 
est nations, countries, people and the commerce 
of the day. They dwell together in harmony. 
They attend each others meetings, truth circles, 
gatherings, and freely talk of the interests iii 
common. The spiritualists are fast drawing 
towards the new method- — the independent 
method — and many able mediums are of that 
school and working along that line in gaining 
others to think that way. 

In Seattle, some years ago, there lived a 



98 BORDER-LAND IX SYMBOLS 

Russian servant girl. She was limited in edu- 
cation, was poor, had to work as a domestic, 
at the wages offered her. She began to take 
lessons on the guitar. Being limited in educa- 
tion she could not make the progress she de- 
sired. She wrote to the Lucy A. Mallory 
brotherhood in Portland, Oregon, for assistance 
and advice. She was given instructions in the 
law of silence and told that there was a spirit 
body, which was in fact her real body, and 
that the spirit body occupied every part of her 
body and was of a finer substance than the ma- 
terial, and that she should appeal to this inner 
being in all her practice lessons, all her per- 
formances in class or public. She made such 
rapid advancement that her teacher wanted to 
know of her who was giving her private les- 
sons. When the girl informed him that no one 
was assisting her, the teacher would not believe 
her and went to her mistress to know who was 
giving the girl lessons. He was assured then 
no one was assisting the girl but himself. The 
teacher gave a concert and the public was in- 
vited. This girl was chosen to take the leading 
part, and she did so nicely that she was called 
back the third time. The girl wrote to the 
brotherhood and said: "When I stood before 
that large crowd, I came near making a mis- 
take. I forgot, at first to play to the inner 
Sarah, and I was confused. When I thought 
of what to do I was then lost in the music and 
never thought of the large audience." 

These are two cases of silence in environ- 



Silence &9 

hients, not at all conclusive to success. Silence 
mastered the day for the convict and the illit- 
erate Russian servant girl. 

The passage way leading to the halls of fame 
are polished with the pressing throng, the steps 
leading to the hall are worn away by the feet 
of the ever pressing throng seeking admission. 
The way leading to the hall of justice is cov- 
ered with spider webs, the steps and floors seem 
never to have been touched. 

Silence is difficult to define. To attempt to 
give an explanation of the condition known as 
silence, one would fall short of the mark and 
his words would fall as vacant as are many 
occult stories, made as taffy is for the market. 
It pleases, sounds sweet and there it ends. 

We are here for a purpose ; if we find our 
mission in life all is well, if not we suffer the 
consequences of ignorance. 

I read a story some years ago of the condi- 
tions during the days when France had the 
galley war ships. Men, for a trifling offense^ 
were sentenced for long terms of years to man- 
age these galley ships. 

This man in this story, was sentenced for life 
on the ship. Life, to him had but few charms. 
He was chained to the seat, given an oar and 
given his orders. He put two and two together 
and he resolved the problem into four. He 
worked this out while pulling at the oar and a 
new light dawned on him. He confided to his 
mates that he intended beating the whole trans- 
action — intended to slip the chains that held 



100 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

him fast and go free. His remark created no 
end of amusement. It did not look promising 
as the other slaves view it. This convict be* 
gan the work of which he had told his com- 
panions. He centered his mind within himself, 
made his life one round of sunshine, was cheer- 
ful, contented, followed the orders given him 
by the guards. In storm, in battle, in calm* 
in peace, he did his best. Months went by. 
His guard noticed him performing his duty as 
life depended upon it. The guard took away 
this convict's chains, telling him he did not 
need any chains, that the chains were needed 
for others who needed two pair instead of one* 
The convict was as faithful as before, and forg- 
ing ahead for his liberty. It now began to 
look serious to his mates. He had made good 
so far. The convict witnessed the killing of 
other convicts by the enraged guards when the 
prisoners shirked their work in rowing the 
boat. Nothing moved the convict, but he was 
gaining in strength for a higher work. On 
one occassion, when the captain was among the 
prisoners, he noticed this man referred to and 
asked him what he was there for. The convict 
said he had killed a man, and was sentenced for 
life. The captain said: "Come with me, this 
is no place for you, we have all killed more or 
less ; you are wanted for a higher place than a 
convict.' ' The prisoner was given a uniform 
and a sword and placed in command in a po- 
sition of trust and honor. He found the inner 



SILENCE 101 

man and to him he appealed, and his every 
prayer was granted. 

George F. Butler, M. D., author of "Love and 
its Affinities," says: "It is true that many 
of the sweetest^ most ideal alliances are child- 
less. Fate, to them, while seeming pitiless, is 
benignant, and a profound heart breaking; 
though unuttered, sympathy of sorrow binds 
together husband and wife in indissoluble 
bonds of purest affection — possibly the most 
spiritualized known to mortals. Yet at the 
marriage altar rarely does love contemplate a 
failure like this. The thought of motherhood 
illumines the silent meditations of the bride \ 
the dream of being father lifts into heroic at- 
titude the happy groom. To feel the soft arms 
of infancy folded about the neck, to listen to 
the confiding, childish prattle from the lips of 
one whom we may call our own; to watch the 
fair unfolding of life's flower, and know that it 
is ours to tend and cherish ; to stand by the lit- 
tle crib, shrine of our tenderest affection and 
mark the seal of Heaven upon the placid coun- 
tenance, as though our darling communed with 
angels. Earth brings to us no vision of the 
beautiful like this; no bliss which so thrills the 
soul with the mute ecstacy of tears, for it is the 
incarnation of divinest love." 

To the mother or father that tenderly puts 
their babe to sleep at night and sings to it a 
sweet lulaby as the the darling closes its eyes in 
gentle sleep, cannot know the sorrow of a 
mother or father that are less fortunate, that 



102 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

have to part with the little one and see it wing 
it 's way to worlds unknown. 

Jean, in "Will Margory Come?" as per the 
following lines, echoes the feeling of many an 
aching heart, as they long to see beyond the 
realm of the ' ' unseen : ' ' 

"Tell me folk of the Spring— 
Of the flaunting gold and the tender green. 
You who return With insolent tread, 
Gladsome of mien, 

1 l When will Margory conic — 
Who folds her hands in the cool dark ground ; 
Will she dance forth with a gay young smile 
Prom her lowly mound? 

"Yield me your secret lore — 
How the dust can hold through the brumal 

night. 
Fragrance and splashings of color that seem 
Born of the light? 

"Emerald, amber and gold; 
Silent you are neath the sun and the rain, 
The round of a year will your petals fling 
Wine — stained again. 

1 * And I know she will come 
After the winter of death, and its sleep. 
With the blue veined fUsh and the calm sweet 

brow — 
My love to keep. 



SILENCE 103 

'Listen, beneath the sod — 
In a newer age and in a fairer clime, 
Spring shall be yours, and self same eyes- 
Dear Margory mine." 

Margory Fair. 

There is no death — only a seeming. 
Margory has gone to the golden Strand ; 
It is we that are left a dreaming, 
Since her departure to a better land. 

The clouds hang heavy and low, 
Looking from valley to Astral sea ; 
But as higher up the mountain we go 
The vision will much clearer be. 

Margory will come to us no more — s 
To this place of darkness and night; 
She calls us to the enchanted shore 
To bask with her in golden light. 

When we laid away our Margory f air, 
In the casket in the cold clay, 
It was only her shadow we placed there ; 
Her spirit had gone on its way. 

Our Margory is not far away : 
It is more a condition, than space. 
Yet we are longing for the day 
When Ave will meet her face to face. 

We are counting the years as they go, 
Waiting for body and spirit to blend, 
In waiting the time passes so slow : 
Wondering if the suspense will never end 



CHAPTER Vitt 



Reason or Instinct. 

Life is a strange proposition. The most 
painstaking scientists cannot tell where reason 
leaves off instinct begins, or vice versa. 

One contends that reason is every degree of 
intelligent action all along the scale of animal 
creation, from the worm to the most highly ed- 
ucated man. There is a dividing line, it is con- 
tended by many, that man alone possesses rea- 
son, while all below man possess only instinct. 

The orang is supposed to be closely related 
to man, and seems to possess all the elements 
of brain structure in man; yet the orang can- 
not kindle a fire or keep one going; cannot 
make his wants known by a language. The 
blood from the orang forms a reaction with the 
blood of man, and he alone is the only animal 
whose blood forms a reaction with man's blood. 

A farmer told me that he caught a fox in a 
trap set at his hen house, and in the morning 
when he discovered the fox, it was, to all ap- 
pearance, cold and dead. He took it out and 
threw it over the fence in the road. The fox 
got to its feet and ran to the woods in all 
possible haste. 

It is a well known fact that fo^es will not 
kill the farmer's fowls near his den. Dogs 



KtfASON OR INSTINCT lt>5 

tfefct kill sheep, will go many miles from home 
to carry on their depredations, 

DuChailku I believe it was, while hunting in 
Africa, tells of the cunning work of & gorilla. 
One day while hunting in the forest of Africa, 
he came upon & large male gorilla standing in 
an open place in the forest, intently watching 
in the distance across the open. Presently 
there came from the opposite side of the field a 
young and powerful gorilla, and with him a fe- 
male gorilla. The two males met and fought 
the true Queensbtirry rules; and round after 
round they bit, tore, struck and clinched to 
break away, came again and get better ad- 
vantages. They fought for some time, and the 
*odds seemed to be in favor of the older male, 
who was battle scarred in many places. In 
•one clinch and desperate struggle, the younger 
male placed his arm around the neck of the old 
gorilla, and by a supreme effort pushed his 
head back: over his own arm and broke the 
neck of the old gorilla. 

When the young gorilla loosened his grasp 
♦and the old gorilla fell dead at his feet, the fe- 
male gorilla, who had been silent up to that 
time, danced and hopped about in great delight 
&nd hugged the young gorilla, as much as to 
say : "I wanted you to win the battle. I had a 
grievance against the old fellow."' They then 
went away into the jungles—lost to view. 

DuChaiiki tells of another experience while 
hunting in Africa. A male gorilla stole and 
carried awny from a tillage, a girl about eigh- 



106 BORDER-LAND IX SYMBOLS 

teen years of age. Her absence was noticed, 
and a searching party of natives went to look 
for her; everywhere that anyone could be lo- 
cated. The search was fruitless. The girl re- 
turned later with her story of her capture by 
the gorilla. She said he carried her many 
miles far into the jungles, away from any pos- 
sible discovery by any of the tribesmen. She 
said he was kind to her. That they moved ev- 
ery day: that at night the gorilla would build 
a rude hut for protection by gathering boughs 
and palms. He would gather food for meals. 
Yet they kept moving constantly. One day 
they came upon a large snake. He beat it to 
death with a club. One day while following* 
the edge of a stream, they came upon a croco- 
dile. The gorilla was amusing himself by 
breaking the legs of the crocodile, by pressing* 
them across its back. While he was thus amus- 
ing himself the girl started for home in all pos- 
sible haste. She had kept the direction of her 
home in mind and she lost no time in widening 
the distance between her captor and herself. 
Through thorns, over rocks, through tangled 
brush, she traveled as fast as her strength 
would let her go. The sun was going down as 
she was making the last lap for home. She 
gained her home and nearly exhausted — site 
fell in the rude hut of her parents. 

A watch was kept for the return of the gor- 
illa. They had not many days to wait. He ap- 
peared on the edge of the forest and was killed 
by the hunters. He yet longed for his common 



REASON OR INSTINCT 3 07 

Uvw wife and would have carried her away 
■again had he captured her. He possibly had 
beckoned on having trouble with her parents, 
*so took her to a safe distance as he thought. 
-She was not happy and longed for home. The 
scientist would not call this reason, for it was 
an animal that has not been accredited with 
reason — so instinct was all the gorilla -could 
•have had. 

History tells of a great warrior that took a 
wife from a lot of prisoners that he had taken 
in battle. While he was away at battle some 
one stole away his bride. He lamented over 
the loss; the great wrong done him, and it w^as 
"this, I presume, where the quotation, "man's 
inhumanity to man makes countless legions 
mourn/ ' 

It is a noticeable fact that as animals stand 
^rect, that the degree of intelligence is in pro- 
portion to the perpendicular standing of the 
animal. "The horizontal must be raised to the 
perpendicular, 1 " the man is the crowning vic- 
tory of reason. 

If one will take a bar of iron two feet or 
'more in length and stand it up or suspend it 
by a cord and place a small pocket compass to 
the iron bar, that the bottom of the bar will 
be indicated to be the south, that is the south 
point of the compass needle will cling to the 
lower end of the bar, and as the compass is 
slowly raised and the center of the bar reached, 
the needle of the compass will slowly turn 
about, and when the equator, or center is pass- 



108 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

eel and the top approached, the north point of 
the needle will cling to the top of the needle. 
Is it that man is thus polarized! It he a north 
and south pole magnet. When the queen of 
Sheba came up from the south, and when Solo- 
mon showed her the secret passages to the 
temple that it referred to the polarization of 
man ? What is in the economy of man that he 
must thus stand erect and that a snake is 
cursed and must crawl on its belly ! 

No sane man denies the law of evolution, 

Darwin has lost out on the theory of the sur- 
vival of the fittest. 

W. Hanna Thompson in "What is Physical 
Life," said, "opinions the world over have 
little connection with evidence, so that many of 
them have instead geographical boundaries. 
This of itself, is enough, for reason as such has 
no more connection with geography than with 
meterorology. Opinions, on the other hand, 
come usually from the interest engendered by 
circumstances, such as birth-place, inheritance, 
historical influences, party or sect. One would 
not expect that a native of New England and a 
native of China would have any opinions in 
common. And so the great conflicts of history 
were not settled by reasoning. One such con- 
flict lately occurred in America, in which two 
branches of the same race, one as well equipped 
with reasoning power as the other, entertained 
such opposite opinions, according to the side of 
the Mason and Dixon's geographical lines. 



REASON OR INSTINCT 109 

that finally their opinions were settled — not by 
argument — but by powder and ball," 

Flakes of Gold, 

In early childhood, while living on the plain, 
In a sluggish stream I found flakes of gold. 

The gold was not plentiful — was hard to find; 
The flakes came from the mountains, I was 
told. 

The time seemed to drag, wore slowly on; 

My thoughts were constantly of the West— 
I longed to go for an abundant supply 

Of wealth, that I might be rich at last. 

With that thought in view, I started West, 
Leaving the valley of golden grain ; 

And by slow marches reached the foot hills $ 
Keeping ever in view the richer gain. 

As I journeyed, the mountains came in view; 

The snow-capped peaks reaching the sky. 
In the streams I found nuggets of gold, 

And gems in the gravel deposits near by. 

As I toiled up the mountain's side. 

The scenery became beautiful and grand. 
I met many returning, faint and weary 

From efforts to gain the enchanted land. 

Others were returning with rich treasure, 
Going back to their old native land ; 

Bidding farewell to the mountain — forever. 
And to the delights of that fairy land. 



CHAPTER IK, 

Compensation. 

li is asserted, by one school of metaphysics, 
that there is nothing in the law of inheritance' 
or hereditary gifts. Possibly this may be true* 
in the broadest sense ; but after ages of reason- 
ing from cause to effect, we have become set in 
that belief and cannot depart from that idea. 
We have been instructed that to raise a child 
properly we should begin with it's grand par- 
ents. 

In the history of the children of Israel, we" 
find them rebelling against the guidance of the 
teachers— refusing to be guided by reason. 
When Joshua lead the hosts across the river 
Jordan, there became the same want of faithful 
following after the counsel of the leaders and 
the destiny of that race had been written in 
dark colors; they were lost and no trace of the 
lost tribes is known in all the earth. 

There lived two farmers adjoining, a w^agon 
road divided their farms. They were well 
equipped with all that could go to make farm 
life happy and prosperous, and the broad fields 
of each told of their earnest labors. One had 
five boys and one girl. There was a want of 
due affection on the part of the husband and 
wife; the wife stood apart from her husband 
in supposed rank and station in life. The chih 



COMPENSATION 111 

dren never in any .stage of their lives ever 
thought of obeying anything their parents told 
them to do. They were little rebels from birth. 
They were little short of demons. Across the 
road lived the other farmer with the same 
number of acres, the same evidence of thrift — 
the farmer and his wife lived as one. They 
were harmonious, loving, kind to each other 
and each shared the same station in social life. 
This man had six sons and three daughters. 
From infancy, these children never knew what 
it was to receive a punishment from their 
father. In the neighborhood these sons and 
daughters were regarded with great worth. 
The war came on. The sons of each family 
went to the war. The boys in the rebelious 
home went from bad to worse and the jail, the 
penitentiary gave them a home the greater part 
of their lives, and some of them found early 
graves. The sons and daughters of the other 
family, wherein harmony ruled the home, lived 
to be useful men and women in the neighbor- 
hood and filled positions of trust. The father 
of the sons that turned out so badly, died in 
sorrow. The father of the other family lived 
to be ninety-three years of age — laid down to 
rest, went to sleep in the confidence of a trust- 
ing Savior and went home to his reward. Pos- 
sibly it is not correct to say, that these sons 
and daughters inherited the kindness of the 
father and mother. 

The swallows in the fall, go to the sunny 
South and leave the little ones to gain strength 



11% BORDER-LAND iK SYMBOLS 

in their wings and follow later. How the lit- 
tle ones, who have never before been over 
the road, know where to go, seems strange. 
Was it inherited instinct that guides them the 

way? 

The wasp has for ages, built their mud tubes> 
and in them placed their eggs, and in the tubes 
place spiders and ants, which they sting and 
stupefy that their young, when they hatch the 
next year, may have food to live on. They 
seem to have inherited the instinct from their 
parents. The old wasp is dead many months' 
when the young hatch out in the Spring. No 
mother wasp is near to guide the operation of 
the building of the mud tttbes or the gathering: 
of the ants and spiders. 

The honey bee seems to live by a law, pe- 
culiarly its own; When the male becomes no- 
more useful, but purely ornamental, the colony 
vselect two old maid sisters and they will lead 
the male to one side and sting him to death. 
They have been doing this for ages and will 
continue on to the end of time. Is it inherited 
instinct f 

The honey bee uses what material it can? 
gather. If the flowers are plentiful and sweet 
the bee will make honey out of the blossoms of 
the wild parsnip, and thus make poisoniou^ 
honey. One can tell what plants were used by 
the bees fr«om the color of the honey— the fire 
weed and clover, making elear honey ; the gold- 
etfcr&d or other yellow flowers will make dark 



COMPENSATION I ; 

CU' Jreliow honey. They are like the child, they 
build from the material that is offered them. 

In a primary school there were in attendance 
two children — Fred and Julia. In the play 
grounds at the school there was teeter boards. 
One of these teeter boards was appropriated by 
these two play-mates. They would sit, each at 
the extreme end of the teeter, would teeter and 
bump on the ground and talk in their childish 
prattle. In later years they advanced to the 
grammar grade. They continued to use the 
same teeter, but they came nearer to each other 
on the board, resting their feet against the sup- 
porting timber on which the teeter rested. From 
the grammar grade to the high school, and then 
to college these people traveled. After college 
days were over, they returned home ; met again 
on the old school play grounds. The teeter was 
yet there, and they occupied it, Now they 
stood upon the teeter, arm in arm, swaying the 
board up and down as in the years before, but 
their minds were now on matters of greater 
weight than the childish prattle. They swayed 
as the board raised and fell, and in strong em- 
brace they held each other as they talked of 
plans for the future. It was remarked that 
these parties were following in the footsteps of 
their parents. 

In one noted case a century or more ago, a girl 
of good family married a worthless trapper. 
In one century there were twelve hundred 
members of that family that served terms in 
the penitentiary or other reformatory insti- 



114 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

tutes. Many of these decendants were hung, 
others lynched, and they went to the bad gen- 
erally. The world looked upon it as a heridi- 
tary trait in them to go to the bad. Every 
community has one or more families that are 
following this law on the down grade. 

It may not be logical to teach, there is truth 
in inherited traits. It appeals to the average 
mind that this law is fixed, that the law applies. 
Abraham was the richest man in all the east. 
All the Jews resemble him in this trait, and in 
the gentleness of their natures. An Irishman 
is an Irishman in all lands and climes — witty 
and ready in a flash with a repartee. The 
Frenchman talks today with his hands as he 
did centuries ago. He is French all over the 
world. One dip of African blood will crop 
out after many generations and show in what 
all along the line were white people. Every 
animal has its father and mother. Every weed* 
plant, grain, shrub or tree has its parent. They 
resemble each other in form, regardless of the 
location. The monkey makes his rude wind 
brake; the African makes his mud hut; the 
Indian his cabin or wigwam; the Englishman 
makes his castle. The plants of the annual 
varieties shed their seeds in the fall ; the winter 
holds them in icy embrace during the winter 
months, yet in the spring they come forth to 
follow the example of the parent without a 
word of counsel to follow r . The wild animals 
have the same habits noM that they had a cen- 
tury or ten centuries ago ; they resemble in ev- 



COMPENSATION 119 

ery detail ail down Hie ages. We take the wild 
plants and domesticate them by giving them 
plenty of room and abundant food, and they re- 
turn a compensation for the labor given them \ 
they retain their shape and habits of growth 
that w r e cannot alter — nature says stop, and w T e 
obey. 

Does a mother plant, when dying, speak a 
word to the tiny seeds that cling to her as the 
cold winds break her from the ground, and 
does she tell them what to do in the coming 
Spring? 

The faithful shall be finally rewarded, 
"There is a city not made with hands, eternal 
in the Heavens." As true as that statement is 
one wdio attempted to describe that city, would 
be regarded with curiosity. 

There is a New York, a London, a Paris, and 
parties returning from those cities enter into a 
description of those places and we get a fair 
idea of them. The Celestial city is just as real, 
just as well and perfectly located, and as sus- 
ceptible of description as are the places men- 
tioned. Many millions of people will never 
see New York, London, or Paris, and other mil- 
lions will never see the Celestial city this side 
of the grave. "A city set upon a hill cannot be 
hid." The Celestial city is located on a hill, 
people have viewed its magnificence, its 
grandeur, its eternal beauty, and have been 
intoxicated by it. When the gate that leads to 
the city is neared, the gate opens, and as the 
traveler approaches near the gate it is noticed 



116 BORDER-LAND IX SYMBOLS 

that it will admit him easily. The streets are 
paved, clean, beautiful; the walls are a gray- 
white, the buildings are all of a nearly clear 
white ; a restful gray- white and the architec- 
ture is of the peculiar workmanship which is 
so impossible to describe. To know of the 
beauty of this Celestial ?ity one should see it. 
You may. The road is not fenced. It is not 
guarded against anyone who cares to go there. 
The gate stands ajar. The avenues are all free 
from any obstruction and you have but to en- 
ter and make it your resting place. The law 
of compensation is ready to fully compensate 
anyone that cares to pay the easy payments for 
the journey. 

44 Behold the fowls of the air; for they toil 
not, neither do they reap, nor gather into 
barns ; yet your Heavenly Father f eedeth them. 
Are ye not much better than they? 

"Which of you, by taking thought, can add 
one cubit unto his stature ? 

44 And why take ye thought for raiment? 
Consider the lillies of the field, how they grow ; 
they toil not neither do they spin. 

44 And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon 
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of 
these * * * ." 

44 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and 
his righteousness and all these things shall be 
added unto you. ' ' 

What a wealth of encouragement is contain- 
ed in the foregoing words of Jesus. Nature 
spreads a table for the most humble animals, 



COMPENSATION 117 

and places the food supply within easy reach. 
Along the western coast of the United States 
the table is spread when the tide is out, and 
for a thousand miles lining the beach man can 
sustain himself with comfort ; can gather more 
than he wants and sell the surplus and revel in 
the luxuries of the land. 

In Portland, Ore., recently there were fifty- 
four tramps taken from one building, and the 
combined company had only seventy cents. 

These misfit beings, calling themselves men, 
have not rightlv understood the meaning of 
life. 

When one sees a beautiful street corner in 
the large cities, disfigured with a soap box or- 
ator and blaspheming the name of God, foam 
and rant when an auto toots its horn in pass- 
ing, it makes one reflect on what generous gov- 
ernment this is that will stand for any such 
disfigurement of the beauties of nature; much 
less a street corner. We are told that in Hyde 
Park, London, most any day one can hear a 
soap box orator abusing the royal family in the 
most bitter terms. They, too, have a kindness 
for the weakness of man and let it pass. 

A beaver will gather bark for it winter *s sup- 
ply. The chipmunk will store up a supply of 
nuts in a hollow tree for winter. The soap box 
orator will find his way to the garbage heap 
at the commission house and gather decayed 
fruit and have a feed and drag himself away to 
some deserted shack and sleep ; the next day to 
again go the same rounds. 



118 BORDERLAND IN SYMBOLS 

We hear often the term "cultivating the 
spirit/' There is no such thing as cultivating 
the spirit, The spirit is the same today in man 
that it was when the first man was created, 
We may cultivate the graces. We may culti- 
vate the material so that the dense materialism 
can be thinned down, so that the spirit can 
shine through and give some light. "When 
the north winds blows hard, and it rains sadly, 
we do not sit down sadly in it and cry ; but de- 
fend ourselves against it with a warm garment, 
or a good fire and a dry roof. So when a storm 
of mischance beats upon our spirits, we may 
turn it into something good, if we resolve to 
make it so ; and with equanimity and patience 
may shelter ourselves from its inclement piti- 
less pelting; for so a wise man shall overrule 
his stars, and have a greater influence upon hist 
own content, then all the constellations and 
planets of the firmament. 

tk Compare not thy condition with the few 
above thee, but to secure thy content, look up- 
on those thousands with whom thou wouldest 
not for any interest change thy fortune and 
condition. A soldier must not think himself 
unprosperous if he be not successful as Alex- 
ander or Wellington ; nor any man deem him- 
self unfortunate that he hath not the fortune of 
a Rothchild; but rather let him rejoice that he 
is not lessened like the many generals who 
went down horse and man before Napoleon, 
anl that he is not a beggar who, bareheaded 



COMPENSATION 119 

in the bleak winter wind holds out his tattered 
hat for charity * * * 

"The blessings of immunity, safeguard, lib- 
erty, and intergrity deserve the thanks of a 
whole life. We are quit from a thousand calam- 
ities everyone of which if it were upon us ? 
would make us insensible of our present sorrow 
and glad to receive it in exchange for that 
greater affliction. M 

When a small boy, living with my parents on 
the bank of the Little Kankakee river in In- 
diana, I would join boys of my age and we 
would gather fire flies, or lightening bugs, as 
we called them, and put them in a clear glass 
bottle and in that way have a pretty fair Ian* 
tern that would make a light for a few steps 
ahead on a dark rainy night. About then we 
got our first coal oil lamp. Mother was afraid 
of it wiien it would blow out the wick, explode 
or act as only lamps of that make could act. 
Mother used the lamp only when company 
came, resorting to the tallow candle for safe- 
ty. For years after the lamps were made safe 
and the coal oil was safe to use, mother stored 
in the chimney closet a supply of greese pots 
and tallow dips for use if needed. We then 
went to Sunday school barefoot, to near the 
school house where Sunday school was held, 
and there put on our Sunday shoes and attend- 
ed the Sunday school. On returning home we 
would take off the Sunday shoes and return 
home barefoot — and happy. Such words as 
happiness, contentment, were in the diction- 



1M BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

aries in those years. Now that we are in the 
twentieth century we call a taxicab, automobile 
street car or flying machine and attend church 
Upon examination of the dictionaries of lat- 
print, we find such words as sorrow^ discon 
tent, pain, disappointment, death. 

The world rolls on. We advance a step foi 
ward. The colleges are turning out finisher 
scholars. Theological seminaries send fortl 
educated men and women in theology to en 
lighten the people. 

In "People's Pulpit, " Vol. 4, No. 7, pub 
Hshed in this twentieth century, in July, 1912, 
one is informed that in Washington, D. C, "a 
monstrous event in the ecclesiastical Heavens 
transpired at Washington, D. C, July 8, 191 2> 
when 4,000 International Bible Students un- 
unanimously adopted a resolution repudiating 
the belief in a literal hell of fire and brimstone 
as a place, state or condition for the eternal tor* 
ment of the wicked." 

Dr. Lymon Abbott repudiates hell: "I find 
nothing in the New Testament to warrant the 
terrible opinion that God sustains the life of his 
creatures throughout eternity, only that they 
may continue in sin and misery. *' 

Men dare to think now, is the declaration 
from the Atlanta Constitution. The editor 
says after reading "The Divine Plan of the 
Ages," the first of a series of six volumes of 
studies in the scripture by Pastor Sussell \ 
;, It is impossible to read this book without lov- 
ing' the write* and pondering his wonderful 



COMPENSATION 121 

solution of the great mysteries that have 
troubled us all our lives. There is hardly a 
family to be found that has not lost some loved 
<one who died outside of the church — outside of 
the plan of salvation, and if Calvinism be true, 
outside of all hope and inside of eternal tor- 
ment and dispair. We smother our feelings 
?ind turn away from the horrible picture. We 
dare not deny the faith of our fathers, and yet 
scan it be possible that the good mother and 
her wandering child are forever separated— 
forever and forever V 

Remember that this happened in this twen- 
tieth century, not in the Dark Ages. We are 
cautioned to be ohedient to the faith of our 
fathers. One envies the man described in 
'Olive Schriners dreams, who saw a swan re- 
flected in the pool as he lie on the ground 
drinking and upon rising could not see it any 
where. He went in search of it, roamed the 
^plains, examined the valleys, climbed the hills, 
the mountains high and searched everywhere 
"for the "bird, yet in all his wanderings he did 
-a great kindness to the many he met ; soothed 
the weary hearts of the many, lightened the 
"burden of the oppressed, and when lie laid 
-down to take his long rest; to fall asleep as he 
was on the Border Land, there fell about him a 
great number of downy leathers. 

This man saw the evidence of something in 
the Boarder Land and it attracted his atten- 
tion. He knew the bird was in evidence some 
where, and it w£s bis aiial^itiou to locate it. 



122 BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

The millions of people might have appealed to 
him in vain to cease his search. Only a shadow 
to give him the start. Only downy feathers to 
prove the search was not fruitless, was the lot 
of that man in his long life's search. What did 
he pay for the evidence of that search ? He was 
abundantly satisfied. 

If Ave can get away from "Divine Revela- 
tion" and once learn that man possesses the 
ability to see beyond the range of the material 
vision as at present defined and in that realm 
find the object of his search it will in a meas- 
ure repay him for the effort. 

It is a well known fact, that Spiritual Con- 
sciousness brings the most bitter antagonism 
on the part of those not possessing it towards 
those who do possess this faculty. 

There seems to be two gTeat powers at work. 
AY hen the spiritual uprising is nearing a point 
that seems to be approaching the millennium, 
the nation is hurled back into adversity, fam- 
ine, war and upheavals in political fields, and 
a backset is had for many years and all is lost 
that was gained, or so nearly so that it dimin- 
ishes to nearly nothing. Will history repeat 
itself in this present spiritual uprising? 

ki Is the compensation worth the effort? 77 
You ask, or, t4 is the game worth the candle V r 
If it be true that the average is but one person 
in every six hundred that have sufficient means 
to maintain themselves for the remainder of 
their life, then something is certainly wrong. 
If one must be warmed by charity after the 



COMPENSATION 123 

^ge uf seventy-five; if those of that age must 
yet labor for a livlihood and gather as best they 
can, the declaration that God is love is out of 
joint. But God is Love. God is a builder — 
not a destroyer. Love is a builder — not de- 
stroyer. God is love, and poverty is a per- 
verted life aside from calamity that may have 
overtaken one while battling with fate. These 
deserve our sympathy. When I see an aged 
person in rags, I want to ask him a dozen ques- 
tions. One's sympathy goes out for them and 
# feeling of relationship reaches out to them. 
There is a maxim in law that warns one: "To 
never waste time with a man with his toes out." 
It hardly needs to be emphasized, for should 
an aged man with his toes out appear in any 
place of business he would not be regarded as 
heing a desirable customer. I was amused on 
one occasion in seeing a lady, dressed good 
-enough for a birthday ball, come into an at- 
torney^ office and inquire what a divorce 
would cost. Her case was one of desertion for 
3. year and non-support. The cost then was 
twenty-five dollars, as fixed by all the at- 
torneys. That lady was charged one hundred 
"and seventy-five dollars, and thought it reason- 
able. She did not ^ant a cheap divorce. Tt 
took the attorney about an hour to draw the 
complaint, and about that long to take testi- 
mony before the referee appointed to hear the 
testimony. She got her divorce. She was 
fully satisfied with her bargain. If that at- 
torney had said he would char&e the regular 



124 BORDER-LAND IK r SYMBOLS 

price that lady would have gone from his office 
disgusted, and would have hunted another at- 
torney. 

Meii «pend a lifetime in some pursuit and lay 
down to rest at the end of life with only a few 
acres, a poor hut, no ready money and yet they 
have a home, a resting place and no one can 
say "move on/' 

In the trades, the professions, all is not gold 
that glitters. Men follow vocations without 
flinching until their strength fails. One man. 
a successful merchant, was feeling out of sorts 
and called in a physician. He said to the 
physician that he thought it would be a good 
plan to go to the seaside for a few weeks' rest; 
that he had not had a vacation for twenty 
years. The physician replied: ''You had bet- 
ter stay at home where you can have the care 
of the family and friends. You should have 
taken a vacation twenty years ago, and should 
have taken one each year. It is too late now, 
stay home." In a few days that rich merchant 
took his long needed vacation and was at rest. 
Did the twenty years' grind fully compensate 
him for the loss of health in the years that he 
should have been in the prime of life? 

Look into a billiard hall in the evening-. 
Count your friends and neighbors playing bill- 
iards. See them there day after day, month 
in and month out. Watch their career. Tt 
takes no great prophet to foretell what will 
happen in a financial way to those men. 



COMPENSATION 125 

As Henry Harland put it in "Rosemary for 
Remembrance :" "Youth faces forward, im- 
patient for the present, panting to anticipate 
the future. But we who have crossed a certain 
dark and sad meridian, we turn our gaze back- 
wards, and tell the relentless gods what we 
would sacrifice to recover a little of the past, 
one of those shining days, when to us also it 
was given to sojourn among the Fortune Is- 
lands. " 

We cannot turn back the hands of time. 
< i Today is your day and mine ; the only day we 
have; the day in which we play our part^ 
what our part may signify in the great world 
we may not understand, but we are here to play 
it, and now is our time." Bunyan said in a 
sermon in 1698: "It is an easy matter for a 
man to run hard for a spurt, for a furlong, for 
a mile or two : Oh, but to hold out for a hun- 
dred, for a thousand, for ten thousand miles! 
That man that doth this, he must look to meet 
with cross, with pain, the weariness to flesh, 
especiallly if, as he goeth, he meeteth with 
briars and quagmires, and other encumbrances 
that make the journey so much the more pain- 
ful. 

; ' I could point out many, that after they had 
followed the way of God for a twelfth month, 
others it may be two, three or four years, they 
have been beaten out of wind, have taken up 
their lodging and rest before they had gotten 
half way to Heaven; some in this and some in 



1W BORDER-LAND IN SYMBOLS 

that sin, and have openly said the way is too 
straight ? ' ? 

A tiniberman, engaged in examining a tract 
of timber, and while in the forest noticed an 
object far in the top of the tall fir trees. He 
watched the object float to the ground and 
caught it in his hand as it gently lowered to 
the ground, It was the feather of a wild pig- 
eon. The clouds hung low. The tops of tall 
trees towering two hundred feet or more were 
in the lower clouds. There was no wild pig- 
eons in sight — none on the trees. The woods- 
man thought the pigeons were flying over and 
were above the trees in the clouds as they hung 
low on the mountain's side. He placed the 
feather in his pocket, saying to himself: "I 
will have a fairy story for my children/' The 
lumberman finished his day's work— returned 
home. The day was short, the night grew dark 
and the woodsman lit a torch to see to follow 
the trail. After he had gone but a short dis- 
tance down the mountain homeward, he saw 
ahead of him in the trail two balls of fire, the 
Tight from some animal. He concluded that it 
must be the eyes of a deer from the distance 
from the ground. The law of the state forbid 
hunting deer by candle light, so he went on 
and the deer disappeared in the woods. But a 
short distance farther on in the trail there ap- 
peared two more balls of fire. This was an 
animal near the ground. The woodsman took 
good aim with his rifle and at the report of the 
gun the balls of fire disappeared a<nd a eommo- 



COMPENSATION 127 

tion in that direction occured, and he found 
that he had killed a bobcat. The woodsman 
removed the skin from the animal and took it 
home to tan for a rug. In this act of killing 
this bobcat, the woodsman saved the lives of 
twenty deer in one year, not to mention the 
number of sheep, calves, and other domestic 
animals that cat would kill. The feather car- 
ried the evidence to the valley that above the 
woodsman in the dark cloud there was a living 
bird from which the feather came. The skin 
from the bobcat carried evidence that the 
woodsman had encountered a dangerous foe. 
Other woodsmen, or hunters would have taken 
the statement from the woodsmen had he not 
carried home the material evidence. 

But to those of the valley, the woodsman 
knew of the knowing look when telling them of 
the incidents in the woodsman's life in the 
woods. 

From the ever increasing number of wit- 
nesses of those who are learning the lay of the 
forest in "The Border Land," an array of facts 
from the psychic fields are presented and are 
now attracting attention, such as never before 
has occurred in the history of the world. Men 
and women advanced in learning, the best 
thinking men and women of the land are at- 
tracted to the phenomena of the psychic field 
and are earnestly trying to solve the problems 
confronting the age. Now they have stripped 
the study of all species of Divine Providence. 
Stripped it of all hoo-doo-ism. Have placed the 



IIS BORDER-LAXD IN SYMBOLS 

phenomena along rational lines where it ca£ 
he analized with the law of reason these stu 
dents, professors, learned scholars, teachers.- 
have settled down to a rational examination of 
the law that leads one to the worlds, heretofore 1 
known as the unknown world. In the incident 
of Moses and the burning bush and the still 
small voice ; in St. Paul seeing the light from 
Heaven and hearing the voice that spoke to 
him; in Haggard, in "Natha the Lily'' in the 
incident of the light in the cave. In " Allen 
Quarterman ' ' in the incident of the furnace ; in 
"She" in the incident of the center of the* 
earth and the fire; ill the furnace of the alche- 
mists, wherein they melted the precious metals. 
In illumination of Jacob Boekme, in a hundred 1 
of men and women of the west, who are teach- 
ing the illumination when all are stripped of the 
miraculous, the Divine special providence plan,, 
then it is made manifest that today the thous- 
ands are known to this inner illumination ; that 
the blazing sun in the center of the body that 
can be seen and is seen at will, and the work! 
moves on without friction and an advancement 
along the line of love to God is being establish- 
ed on a basis such as the world has never before- 
known or heard of. To love God now it means 
a different thing than it did ages ago, when ev- 
ery turn of the hand, every breath, meant pos- 
sible death to the inquirer if he dared to inti- 
mate something outside of the established 
theories of the schools in theology. 

Eaefo time the light on the altars are extin- 



COMPENSATION 129 

guished by the killing of the watchers there is 
a gain something is retained to carry the work 
along until the light breaks forth to shine again 
but with an added luster. What design is on 
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